Space rocket debris rains down on villagers in China

Rocket debris has appeared to rain down on terrified villagers in China after the launch of a satellite. Footage posted on Chinese social media seemed to show a rocket booster followed by a bright orange plume of smoke falling on a town in Guizhou, one of China’s poorest provinces. The images take the shine off Beijing’s latest successful unmanned mission to the far side of the Moon, which returned to Earth on Tuesday. Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, has set ambitious goals to become a leading space power, including landing astronauts on the Moon and building a research base on its south pole, but images of falling debris from rocket launches are frequently shared on social media. “This is not how a major space power operates,” said Todd Harrison, an aerospace and defence expert at the American Enterprise Institute think tank. #china #space #rocket Read more here: