China's Space Station is Due to Crash Soon

No April Fool's Day gag...

Scientists monitor the docking of a Chinese manned spacecraft and 

China's Tiangong-1 space module in 2013.

A Chinese space station is going to fall out of the sky in a few weeks, and no one knows where it will hit, Alex Lubben reports on vicenews.com.

The Chinese space program lost contact with -- and their ability to steer -- the 9.4-ton Tiangong-1 in March of 2016, after it had been spinning around the earth for over four years, according to state media, Lubben wrote.

Now, it's losing speed in orbit and is expected to fall into the atmosphere sometime around the first week of April.  The craft will tumble back into the atmosphere, and perhaps break up, and where it will fall is difficult to predict.  Still, it's pretty unlikely to hit anyone on reentry, Lubben added.

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