> They once wiped out an entire peasant village in a rocket failure (and tried to cover it up). Wow, I had never heard of anything about this. Wikipedia seems

> They once wiped out an entire peasant village in a rocket failure (and tried to cover it up). Wow, I had never heard of anything about this. Wikipedia seems to be very risk averse to stating much more than the official record of 6 deaths and 57 injuries[0], and I couldn't find a good text source in my quick search. This metafilter discussion is good, though, with many links to videos and other sources[1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_708 [1]: http://www.metafilter.com/90280/The-worst-spacerelated-disaster-happened-in-Xichang-China-in-1996 http://www.metafilter.com/90280/The-worst-spacerelated-disas...