A Space Station Crashes to Earth

Published: March 28, 2018, 3 p.m.

b'By the time you hear this week\\u2019s episode, China\\u2019s Tiangong-1 may have spectacularly re-entered our planet\\u2019s atmosphere, raining metal on an unpredictable location.\\xa0 The Aerospace Corporation\\u2019s Bill Ailor, an expert on space debris, tells us there\\u2019s little to worry about, but bigger challenges are ahead in low Earth orbit. Bruce Betts also has his mind on the small space station.\\xa0 Emily Lakdawalla is back from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference with much news to share. NASA finally has a budget for the year already underway!\\xa0 Casey Dreier breaks it down.'