Michael was a science writer for the Idaho National Laboratory and has been an intern at Wired.com, The Salinas Californian newspaper, and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He has also worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D.
A big piece of Chinese space junk crashed to Earth over Southern California early Tuesday morning , putting on quite a show for observers in the Golden State.
The Shenzhou orbital module, which weighs about 3,300 pounds , provides extra room for astronauts and science experiments in space. It's not designed to come back to Earth safely at the end of its mission; the Shenzhou reentry module is built to do that, with astronauts on board.Of course, most folks who saw the fireball streak across the sky around 1:40 a.m. local California time didn't know what it was.
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