[Oni]

A Chinese rocket booster crashed and nearly hit a school. Had the trajectory been slightly different, the booster could have killed a bunch of kids. Video shows the destruction caused.

Video: https://twitter.com/LaunchStuff/status/1...6990891008

A Chinese Long March 4B rocket successfully launched a new Earth-watching satellite Monday (Sep. 7) but the booster's spent first stage narrowly missed a school when it fell back to Earth, witness videos show.

The Long March 4B rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China, at 1:57 p.m. local time (1:57 a.m. EDT, 0557 GMT). It carried the powerful Gaofen 11 (02) Earth observation satellite, an optical observation satellite capable of returning high resolution images, showing features as smaller than 3 feet (1 meter) across.

Read More: https://www.space.com/china-launches-gao...crash.html

[mothered]

My goodness, had It hit the school, there would've been quite a number of casualties.

[Jiggly]

Jesus. I'm sure China still considers the launch a great success. This shows how important SpaceX's work is, with reusable rockets that land ,to pinpoint accuracy, where you want them to.

[Skullmeat]

You do not want to know how horribly toxic the hypergolic fuels they use in those rockets is. Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine, in particular, was nicknamed "Devil's Venom" by Russian scientists.