Emergency operations activated in Michigan as Chinese space station hurtles towards Earth

By Katie Leach

Published March 31, 2018 4:17pm ET

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Emergency operations activated in Michigan as Chinese space station hurtles towards Earth — In this picture, the shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. In the next few days, the unoccupied Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life. Most of the craft should burn up. | (Fraunhofer Institute FHR via AP)

The state of Michigan is on alert for a possible space debris landing as an out-of-control Chinese space station is set to make landfall sometime in the next few days.

Gov. Rick Snyder, R-Mich., activated the state’s Emergency Operations Center this week in anticipation for China’s Tiangong-1 space station to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere this weekend, according to the Detroit Free Press.

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