{"id":488112,"date":"2021-05-09T09:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T13:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=488112"},"modified":"2021-05-09T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T13:21:08","slug":"nasa-accuses-china-of-failing-to-clean-up-space-junk-after-rocket-careens-back-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-accuses-china-of-failing-to-clean-up-space-junk-after-rocket-careens-back-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Accuses China Of Failing To Clean Up Space Junk After Rocket Careens Back To Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fnasa-accuses-china-of-failing-to-clean-up-space-junk-after-rocket-careens-back-to-earth%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=488112&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\/NASA-logo.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>NASA Administrator Bill Nelson slammed Beijing Saturday as a Chinese rocket crashed back to Earth, landing in the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpacefaring nations must minimize the risks to people and property on Earth of re-entries of space objects and maximize transparency regarding those operations,\u201d Nelson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-administrator-statement-on-chinese-rocket-debris\">statement<\/a>. \u201cIt is clear that China is failing to meet responsible standards regarding their space debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is critical that China and all spacefaring nations and commercial entities act responsibly and transparently in space to ensure the safety, stability, security, and long-term sustainability of outer space activities,\u201d Nelson added.<\/p>\n<p>The debris came from the remains of remnants of China\u2019s Long March 5B rocket. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/06\/science\/china-rocket-crash-long-march-5b.html?smtyp=cur\">The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>The piece that will be dropping out of the sky somewhere is the core booster stage of the Long March 5B, which was designed to lift the big, heavy pieces of the space station. For most rockets, the lower stages usually drop back to Earth immediately after launch. Upper stages that reach orbit usually fire the engine again after releasing their payloads, guiding them toward re-entry in an unoccupied area like the middle of an ocean.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that China is the only spacefaring nation that has let its large rocket boosters that make orbit fall back to Earth haphazardly without any attempt to direct where the debris lands, according to the Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn ocean reentry was always statistically the most likely. It appears China won its gamble (unless we get news of debris in the Maldives). But it was still reckless,\u201d McDowell said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/planet4589\/status\/1391230508567351303\">tweet<\/a> after the Chinese debris crashed into the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to impact, experts said that pinpointing the location where the debris would land would be difficult, if not impossible. While the chances of the rocket landing in a densely populated area were small, the odds were not nothing, though, highlighting the risk that China took by not taking safety precautions with the remnants of its Long March 5B rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said last week that it was tracking the remnants of the rocket, but was unable to predict where it would land. As <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:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.722520107239\">\n<p><em>The Pentagon has been tracking the Chinese \u201cLong March 5B\u201d rocket. According to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/04\/politics\/chinese-rocket-earth-scn\/index.html\">statement<\/a>\u00a0from 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to Howard, the \u201cexact entry point into the Earth\u2019s atmosphere\u201d cannot be determined until just hours before the rocket enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe expect it to reenter sometime between the eighth and 10th of May. And in that two day period, it goes around the world 30 times. The thing is traveling at like 18,000 miles an hour. And so if you\u2019re an hour out at guessing when it comes down, you\u2019re 18,000 miles out in saying where,\u201d explained McDowell.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Administrator Bill Nelson slammed Beijing Saturday as a Chinese rocket crashed back to Earth, landing in the Indian Ocean.\u201cSpacefaring nations must minimize the risks to people and property on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277602,"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\/NASA-logo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NASA Accuses China Of Failing To Clean Up Space Junk After Rocket Careens Back To Earth","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488112","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\/NASA-logo.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"NASA Accuses China Of Failing To Clean Up Space Junk After Rocket Careens Back To Earth","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488112","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=488112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}