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Tiangong-1 Space Lab Will Fall to Earth Next Year, China Says
China's first-ever space lab will die a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere toward the end of next year, Chinese officials said. The 9.4-ton (8.5 metric tons) Tiangong-1 spacecraft is currently intact and orbiting Earth at an altitude of 230 miles (370 kilometers), according to Wu Ping, deputy director of China's Manned Space Engineering office. That's a bit lower than the International Space Station, which usually stays about 250 miles (400 km) above the planet's surface.
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The last one was pretty spectacular. My son and daughter actually got to see it. They were driving to Vegas to meet my wife and I (me and my wife? I always get those confused) and they called me as it was happening. My daughter tried to Facetime me, but I wasn't able to see it. I told them that I read that a Chinese satellite was coming down and that was probably what they were seeing. They thought it was the mothership coming to take them home.
The way I understand the usage of me vs I is to drop the other pronoun and write the sentence about yourself. So it would be "...driving to meet me (and my wife)". Another example is "(My wife and) I enjoy traveling".
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