• 50 years living in space From the Salyut tragedy to the future Chinese station

  • Chinese space station launches first component of Celestial Palace

The construction of the China Heavenly Palace is already underway.

Thousands of people celebrated on April 29 at the Wenchang Space Center on the island of Hainan the launch of the first component of the future space station that the Asian giant expects to be fully operational in 2022.

A few days later, however, the alert was raised: the imposing rocket that launched it, turned into useless space junk, will fall uncontrollably on Earth this weekend.

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