A Space Station Is Falling to Earth. No Need to Freak Out

A Chinese space station that hasn’t hosted any astronauts since 2013 is expected to plunge to Earth in late March.The Tiangong-1 station will mostly burn up during reentry and experts say that while it’s hard to predict where any fragments might land, the risk to humans on the ground is small, NBC News reported. Blaze Bernstein’s Parents Speak Out on Death of Son An Aerospace analysis found that “the risk that an individual will be hit and injured by a piece of debris is estimated to be less than one in a one trillion.”“It’s much more common to be hit by lightning,” said Dr. William Ailor, principal engineer for the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at Aerospace. Has #MeToo Gone Too Far? Aziz Ansari Story Sparks Debate Photo Credit: Getty Images, File
Source: NBC San Diego