This Fourth of July, remember that the “rocket’s red glare” is increasingly American-made, as the Chinese Communist Party’s most recent attempt to match the Land of the Free came crashing down . . . literally.
This past Sunday, the Chinese Tianlong-3 rocket, which was developed to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX project, dramatically crashed into a mountainside after it accidentally lifted off during a static fire test near the city of Gongyi in Henan Province. Social-media footage shows the uncontrolled rocket parabolically arcing into the air and exploding on a hill. No one was killed, reportedly. (China isn’t exactly known for being honest about such things.) The local Chinese municipal government confirmed that the rocket’s crash started a fire, which it claimed was rapidly put out.
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