Rocket debris hits Chinese village
Source: Guardian
Two houses in China were damaged by falling pieces of a rocket launched on Monday, prompting calls for an insurance scheme to cover future damage from the country's space programme, the China Daily newspaper has reported.
No casualties were reported after the successful launch of China's first moon rover, Chang'e-3, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the southwestern province of Sichuan, but debris from the launch hurtled into a village in neighbouring Hunan province.
A photograph in the newspaper showed a farmer standing by a desk-sized metal cone below a hole in his wooden roof.
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More than 180,000 residents of Sichuan and Hunan were relocated before the launch of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe, the paper said.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/rocket-debris-hits-chinese-village
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Debris from the Chang'e-3 moon-mission rocket launch was reportedly found in a forest in southwest China. ChinaNews
There was a film about Anousheh Ansari, the first female self-funded space tourist called Space Tourists and it features:
In the film, some Kazakhs are shown waiting in the middle of the steppes for four rocket stages to literally fall from the sky. Has that ever been filmed before?
No. And I doubt it will ever be filmed again. Filming the work of the Kazakh scrap metal collectors was anything but easy. After we did extensive research on the ground, the Russian authorities finally gave us a film permit in principle, but they imposed crippling preconditions on our activities.
The real daily routine of the scrap metal collectors could definitely not be shown. Secret service agents and military personnel dressed in overalls and helmets were willing to «re-enact» their work for the cameras – in an idealized way that officials in Moscow deemed to be presentable, but not at all how it takes place in reality.
It was nearly a year before we could finally shoot that sequence. Using Google Earth, my assistant created a huge map of the steppes where you could see the tracks of the trucks. With the help of those maps and GPS navigation, we were able to navigate through the endless steppes.
http://www.space-tourists-film.com/en/background.php
So there are scrap metal collectors waiting for rockets to fall out of the sky in Kazakhstan
