Ginormous Chinese rocket crashes back to Earth

An enormous Chinese rocket with a length of about 100 feet came plunging back into the atmosphere on Monday. It was the largest piece of crap to crash back down to Terra Firma in decades, and that may be due to the fact that it was made in China.

Forbes reported that the 5B rocket was launched May 5. It carried a prototype of a newly-designed crew capsule.  After about a week in orbit, the core stage of the rocket re-entered the atmosphere at around 11 a.m., honking along at thousands of miles per hour.

“It is the most massive object to make an uncontrolled reentry since the 39-tonne Salyut-7 in 1991,” tweeted Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astrophysicist who tracks objects in orbit and puts his pants on one leg at a time.

A piece of the spacecraft measuring about the size of a small school bus splashed down into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa, according to the US Space Command, which was tracking the re-entry, causing some to believe the gods must be crazy.

Pooped out satellites and used rocket stages often re-enter the earth's atmosphere, but they pale in size compared to this leviathan craft.

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