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PREVIEW: PRC: Colleague Bob Zimmerman explains the perilous Chinese space program that drops boosters on villages. More tonight.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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PREVIEW: PRC: Colleague Bob Zimmerman explains the perilous Chinese space program that drops boosters on villages. More tonight.
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0:00.0

This is John Batchel, conversation with my good colleague, Bob Zimmerman, about a launch of a

0:05.6

Long March 2F booster with three astronauts aboard for the Chinese space station taking place in

0:13.3

one of the spaceports in China, this one over the continent. And so when the boosters fall away,

0:19.9

it crash on people of China, down below them.

0:24.5

There's no controlled descent like SpaceX. They just fall away. Bob describes what happens.

0:31.3

This is a strange detail of the Chinese space contest with the United States is an indifference to dropping poisonous

0:41.1

and very dangerous fuel left on those tanks on the Chinese people, on villages.

0:47.7

More of this later.

0:49.3

I have.

0:50.4

The rocket they used was a Long March 2F.

0:54.0

It launched from interior, northwest China. It had three astronauts on. The rocket they used is the Long March 2F.

0:54.2

It launched from interior, northwest China.

0:57.1

It had three astronauts on board for a six-month mission on the Tianan Ghanai Space Station.

1:02.7

The rocket itself had, I think, four side boosters and core cost stage all of which dropped somewhere in

1:11.5

china all of which use very toxic hypergolic fuel which will dissolve your

1:15.9

skin if it touches you

1:17.7

we don't know where they did where they crashed the crew did dock with their

1:22.4

station and has now uh started its work

1:26.2

uh... they're achieving a great thing with their space station,

1:30.2

but they really should fix the problem with their rockets' jobs.

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