China brushes aside concern over harm triggered by rocket debris

China on Friday brushed aside concern that debris from its large rocket that is likely to fall back to Earth this weekend would hurt people, stressing most of it will be burned in the atmosphere.Latest estimates have shown the Long March-5B Y2 rocket, which carried the core module of China's first space station to orbit late last month, is expected to come down "somewhere between" Saturday and Sunday, the United States said.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters in Beijing, "Most of the components will be ablated and destroyed during the re-entry process" into the atm…READ FULL ARTICLE