{"id":481970,"date":"2021-05-07T15:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=481970"},"modified":"2021-05-07T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:20:40","slug":"as-plunging-chinese-rocket-approaches-earth-sec-def-lloyd-austin-says-no-plans-to-shoot-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-plunging-chinese-rocket-approaches-earth-sec-def-lloyd-austin-says-no-plans-to-shoot-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"As Plunging Chinese Rocket Approaches Earth, Sec Def Lloyd Austin Says No Plans To Shoot It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-plunging-chinese-rocket-approaches-earth-sec-def-lloyd-austin-says-no-plans-to-shoot-it-down%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=481970&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-488503414-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/really-negligent-on-chinas-part-chinese-rocket-will-crash-to-earth-this-weekend-plunging-at-18000-miles-per-hour\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported that a large out-of-control Chinese rocket is likely going to smash into Earth this coming weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to reenter Earth\u2019s atmosphere this weekend has brought about an alarming but not unprecedented situation,\u201d said <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/05\/politics\/chinese-rocket-debris-space-earth-explainer-scn\/index.html\"><span>CNN<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chinese \u201cLong March 5B\u201d rocket is being tracked by the Pentagon. According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/04\/politics\/chinese-rocket-earth-scn\/index.html\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> from Defense Department spokesperson Mike Howard, the U.S. Space Command is tracking the rocket\u2019s trajectory, expected to enter our planet\u2019s atmosphere this weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said during a press conference with reporters that there was no plan to shoot down the rocket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have the capability to do a lot of things, but we don\u2019t have a plan to shoot it down as we speak,\u201d Austin said, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/may\/06\/chinese-rocket-debris-us-military\"><span>The Guardian<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe\u2019re hopeful that it will land in a place where it won\u2019t harm anyone. Hopefully in the ocean, or someplace like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor those of us who operate in the space domain, there\u2019s a requirement, or should be a requirement to operate in a safe and thoughtful mode,\u201d Austin added. There is a need to \u201cmake sure that we take those kinds of things into consideration as we plan and conduct operations\u201d in space, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to the Aerospace Corp, debris is expected to pass over eastern U.S. cities before hitting the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><span>On Friday, it was reported that, according to a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, \u201c<\/span><span>the upper stage of the rocket will mostly burn up on re-entry, posing little threat to people and property on the ground,\u201d and that Chinese authorities would release information regarding the rocket and its re-entry in a \u201ctimely manner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Guardian also noted that \u201cThe Global Times, a Chinese tabloid published by the official People\u2019s Daily, characterized reports that the rocket is \u2018out of control\u2019 and could cause damage as \u2018western hype,\u2019\u201d and that the \u201csituation is \u2018not worth panicking about.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reacting to the plunging rocket, the White House has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/may\/06\/chinese-rocket-falling-crash-to-earth-saturday-china-space-station-long-march-5b-us-space-command\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> for \u201cresponsible space behaviors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe United States is committed to addressing the risks of growing congestion due to space debris and growing activity in space and we want to work with the international community to promote leadership and responsible space behaviors,\u201d said White House press secretary Jen Psaki.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As The Daily Wire previously noted, \u201c<\/span><span>The debris \u2026 does not appear to pose a significant threat, with CNN reporting that Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, saying, \u2018This is not the end of days.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think people should take precautions. The risk that there will be some damage or that it would hit someone is pretty small \u2014 not negligible, it could happen \u2014 but the risk that it will hit you is incredibly tiny. And so I would not lose one second of sleep over this on a personal threat basis,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are much bigger things to worry about.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, The Daily Wire reported that a large out-of-control Chinese rocket is likely going to smash into Earth this coming weekend.\u201cThe large Chinese rocket that is out of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277545,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-488503414-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"As Plunging Chinese Rocket Approaches Earth, Sec Def Lloyd Austin Says No Plans To Shoot It Down","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-488503414-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"As Plunging Chinese Rocket Approaches Earth, Sec Def Lloyd Austin Says No Plans To Shoot It Down","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}