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Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley asks, ‘Where are the black generals?’ Jamie McIntyre © Provided by Washington Examiner DOD header 2020 ‘WE MUST GET BETTER’: Before the nation’s top military officer swore in 21 new second lieutenants to the Army at a commissioning ceremony at Howard University, one of the nation’s premier Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Washington, D.C., he paused to reflect on the U.S. military’s egalitarian ethos, as well...

Image via Roberto Machado Noa/Getty A portion of a rocket from China that’s traveling 18,000 miles per hour may possibly fall back to earth this weekend, with nobody knowing exactly where it will land.  The debris is a 100-foot-long piece from a Chinese Long March 5B, according to the U.S. Space Command, which the Associated Press reports brought the main module of China’s first permanent space station into orbit. And now, even the Pentagon is tracking the rocket’s eventual whereabout...

BEIJING: Debris from a Chinese rocket that sent part of a planned space station into orbit last week is likely to...

As of now, it does not know where the debris will land. The core of the rocket, which China launched April 29, has been predicted to come back to Earth “around May 8,” Space Command said. Its exact trajectory is still unclear. The rocket is in orbit and will be falling back to Earth uncontrolled, Insider’s Morgan McFall-Johnsen reported Saturday. The Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told CNN that the rocket was traveling at 28,968km/h, which means a tiny change to its orbit would ...

Updated: 10:11 AM MDT May 6, 2021 By Paul LeBlanc The large Chinese rocket that is out of control and set to reenter Earths atmosphere this weekend has brought about an alarming but not unprecedented situation.Space debris has crashed into Earth on a number of occasions, including last year.The good news is that debris plunging toward Earth — while unnerving — generally poses very little threat to personal safety. As Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics C...

INCOMING! Chinese rocket falling to Earth ‘will crash on Saturday’ after panicked scientists reveal it’s out of control Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter 6 May 2021, 12:58 Updated: 6 May 2021, 13:01 A HUGE Chinese rocket making an out-of-control tumble from space looks set to crash back to Earth this weekend as experts warn that debris from the impact could hit an inhabited area. Calculations of the 21-ton boosters trajectory predict that it will fall on Saturd...

A British Space Force? Never Say Never, Says UK General Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston is pictured during a service to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at Westminster Abbey on September 20, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. (Aaron Chown/WPA Pool/Getty Images) 6 May 2021 As countries around the world expand their military space efforts, one of the U.S.s closest allies wants to develop deeper cooperation on the final frontier -- and hasnt ruled out creating a "Space Force" of its...

Huntsville marks special space anniversary, looks ahead to Space Command Updated May 06, 2021; Posted May 06, 2021 Retired NASA engineer Jay Foster, who was part of the team that built the Redstone rockets that carried the first American, Alan Shepard, into space, speaks May 5, 2021, while standing next to a space capsule simulator where Shepard and other astronauts trained. (Paul Gattis | pgattis@al.com) Facebook Share It’s perhaps a forgotten anniversary, overshadowed by much grander acco...

The first image of Chinas rouge Long March 5B rocket in orbit has been released by astronomers. The Italy-based Virtual Telescope Project captured the craft, which appears like a glowing light, as it passed above the groups Elena robotic telescope. The Chinese rocket made headlines this week when new surfaced the massive 21-ton vehicle would make an uncontrolled reentry weekend, with the possibility of landing in inhabited areas. The rocket was moving extremely fast when it soared 435 miles abo...

Nobody Wants Rules in Space As space becomes more crowded, there’s little hope for new international rules to make it safer. Debris from a crashing Chinese rocket hurtling toward Earth and a Russian projectile-shooting spy satellite are the two examples of a big problem: too few rules governing how nations behave in space. Wednesday on Capitol Hill, lawmakers pressed Biden administration officials on what the United States can do to set some hard boundaries. The answer: The United St...