Steven Lee Myers and Kenneth Chang, NYT

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Used Chinese rocket tumbling back to Earth

Rocket expected to fall in ‘an uncontrolled reentry’ sometime on Saturday or Sunday

In this file photo a Long March 5B rocket carrying China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe launches from the Wenchang Space Center on China's southern Hainan Island on November 24, 2020, on a mission to bring back lunar rocks, the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon in four decades.

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