October 17, 200422 yr Oct 17, 2004 8:00 am US/Eastern BEIJING (AP) There are some things you just can't prepare for -- like having part of a Chinese satellite crash through your apartment building. A published report says a capsule crashed into a four-story building Friday, in southwestern China. No one was hurt, but the woman who lived on the top floor where it hit had just left five minutes earlier. A photo in the Tianfu Morning News shows the kettle-shaped capsule, which appeared to be about six feet long, lying amid broken bricks, beams and roof tiles. The incident was a minor embarrassment for a fledgling Chinese space program. But one resident saw it differently, saying "Maybe this means we'll have good luck this year."
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