China's Doomed Space Lab Has Made Its Fiery Return to Earth

Chinese authorities say the Tiangong-1 space station re-entered Earth's atmosphere Monday, marking an end to the country's first space lab mission. The Tiangong-1 made re-entry over the Pacific Ocean around 8:15 a.m. Beijing time (8:15 p.m. Sunday EST), with most of its parts burning up before crashing into the southern Pacific Ocean, the China Manned Space Agency said in a statement. The space station began its uncontrolled free-fall earlier this year.

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