While the U.S. media largely ignored the successful launch of China’s first module of its space station, a lot of coverage was given to the alleged danger of falling “space debris” from the jettisoned Long March 5B which had carried the module.
The U.S. Space Command, gallant Defenders of the Galaxy, immediately issued a statement saying that the remains could endanger people, although no one in the history of the international space program has been killed by space debris. When rockets are jettisoned in space missions, they burn up as they pass through the atmosphere. Remnants may descend to Earth. This was the case with the Chinese Long March rocket, the remains of which plunged into the Indian Ocean.
