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Pad worker William B. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8-inch (20 cm) high-pressure water line, which should not have been pressurized at the time, to the mobile Service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. The cap blew off with 180 psi pressure, striking him in the chest and killing him.
The Chinese government, through its official Xinhua news agency, reported that six people were killed and 57 injured. Western media speculated that between a few dozen and 500 people might have been killed in the crash; "dozens, if not hundreds" of people were seen to gather outside the centre's main gate near the crash site the night before ...
Videos and coverage of the attack were censored online. Details about it were not released until the following day, a delay that drew heavy criticism on Chinese social media platforms. [4] [8] [9] It is the deadliest attack in China since the May 2014 Ürümqi attack. [10] [4] [11]
In space, no one can hear you scream -- but you may hear a knock. When he was alone in a spacecraft in 2003, astronaut Yang Liwei reportedly heard a "knock" despite being alone. Liwei was the ...
China’s Shenzhou-17 spacecraft returned to Earth Tuesday, carrying three astronauts who have completed a six-month mission aboard the country’s orbiting space station. It comes roughly four ...
Member of the first three-person Chinese crew in space. Zhai Zhigang: 翟志刚 Shenzhou 7 (September 25–28, 2008) Shenzhou 13 (October 15, 2021–April 16, 2022) First Chinese national to walk in space. Commander of the first Chinese three-person crew in space. Liu Wang: 刘旺 Shenzhou 9 (June 16–29, 2012) Member of the first Chinese crew ...
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2020: The empty core stage of a Chinese Long March-5B rocket made an uncontrolled re-entry - the largest object to do so since the Soviet Union's 39-ton Salyut 7 space station in 1991 – over Africa and the Atlantic Ocean and a 12-meter-long pipe originating from the rocket crashed into the village of Mahounou in Côte d'Ivoire. [21] 2021: