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Keep An Eye To The Sky For A Falling Rocket

Five Things You Need To Know for Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Falling Rocket
Falling Rocket
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1. Allegiance Staffing will be holding a job fair on May the 14, 2021 at Taqueria El Torito from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

2. Coming up Friday evening there will be a rocket launch from the Wallops Space Facility in Virginia that you will be able to see here in NC! Look to the NE skies around 7:58 p.m. and you may just see something spectacular!


3. From a rocket launch to a falling rocket, today is all about space.

A Chinese rocket is falling uncontrollably back to earth and they have NO IDEA where it is going to land! It was part of a mission for the Chinese government to build their own space station but one of the boosters accidently got hung in low orbit and now its falling uncontrollably back to Earth. They say that it could land sometime around May 8th but they won't know where it will land until an hour before it starts to burn up in the atmosphere.

4. Its National Astronaut Day!

5. (Fun Fact): The McDonald's character Grimace was originally evil . . . in 1971 he was called Evil Grimace and his goal was to steal milkshakes. But by 1972 they turned him into a purple monster who's a good guy and not very bright.

Five Things You Need To Know for Wednesday, May 5, 2021