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A Chinese Space Lab Will Soon Fall From The Sky. Where It Lands, No One Knows

Most of the Chinese space lab, the size of a city bus, will burn up in the atmosphere, but some debris may survive re-entry.

A Chinese space lab the size of a city bus will soon be falling back to Earth, and no one knows exactly where bits of it might crash down.

Current say that the 19,000-pound lab should re-enter the earth's atmosphere sometime in the last few days of

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