Tiangong-1 crash: Chinese space station comes down in Pacific Ocean

Tributes on Weibo as officials say craft, which had been out of control since 2016, mostly burnt up on re-entry

As China's Tiangong-1 space station hurtled toward Earth on Monday, burning up as it entered the atmosphere, Chinese residents wished the spacecraft a final farewell.

"Goodbye Tiangong-1. You are our hero," one user wrote on the Chinese microblog Weibo, under the hashtag "Goodbye Tiangong". Chinese news outlets posted photos and tributes to the 10.4-metre-long space station as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific.