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Lots of Concern This Weekend That Debris From an Out of Control Chinese Rocket Was Going to Land in Africa

by Eric Olander

There was palpable anxiety across a number of African countries this weekend that pieces of a Chinese rocket that hurtled back to earth were going to land somewhere in their countries. Newspapers in Ghana, Nigeria and Namibia, among others, fretted about the prospect of falling rocket shrapnel.

Ultimately, what was left of the Long March 5B rocket landed on Sunday morning in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives.

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