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Over the years, it was 1 duringe during my active astronaut days, and against because of hurricane damage, we do live on the hurricane coast. the thing that is cool down here. the sitting area, this is where we have our memorabilia room. things that bring us back a lot of memories, is the bottles here each one has the crew -- on a mission and signed by individuals from that particular space crew. mercury was first, gemini, apollo, and sky lab. and then we got space shuttle, now. iss, international space station. station. this is space shuttle memorabilia here.

Sky. there's a chance debris will hit the ground. it's not the first time we have seen a space lab or a space station in uncontrolled decent. it happened in 1979 with the u.s.'s sky lab. it happened again in 1991 with a soviet station known as the salute 7. it's just kind of fascinating to see this piece of technology descending out of the sky and wondering where it may hit next. the predictions are that it could come down sometime between march 31st and april 1st. george and nally? >> that would be like pretty soon, like right now. >> thank you. our meteorologist ivanka br -- ivan is here t...

That's why it's out of control. nine tons. most of it we think is going to burn up. there's a chance all of it burns up. as ivan mentioned, the last space station in 2001 and '79, the sky lab which the u.s. government got fined $400 because the pieces landed in australia and they got fined for littering. this is what we expect. 80 kilometers up, then additional break continues. we are hoping for little pieces here. i put it right over the ocean so you don't panic and think it is coming to you. we have seen this before and it is quite a fire ball, regardless of whether anything hits the ground....

Of the land. a lot of it's desert and mountains so the likelihood -- >> bill: it still doesn't eliminate it. >> technically it's not a zero possibility but not something we should worry about. >> bill: with the hubble -- >> it reminds me when i was a kid and sky lab was falling out of the sky. after that, what nasa did was when they were going to put up a big object like hubble or the space station they made the commitment they were going to not just let it fall out of the sky. they were going guide it back to earth. with hubble what we did on the last servicing mission was put a docking ring ...

Safely in australia and engineers are expecting it. a spokesperson blamed a technical issue saying the safety of our guests is the utmost authority. and a harvard astrophysicists say china's abandoned space station will crash into earth in a few months. the problem is, they don't know where or when. this space station weighs about eight tons, about the size of a small bulldozer. a rep for china's space agency says most of it should burn up in the atmosphere but large chunks could hit the ground. scientists chances of anybody getting hurt are relatively small. america's first space station, sky...