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Showed us its majestic terrain cratered from centuries of impacts. but this morning a giant new collision is just weeks away. >> and liftoff. >> reporter: a piece of this spacex rocket launched in 2015 is now on a crash course with the moon. four tons of metal traveling at 5,000 miles per hour. the moons gravitational pull sucking it in, impact calculated for march 4th. amateur bill gray first discovered its crash course. the first accidental crash ever of a manmade object. >> this is the first ...

Junk up there and nobody really regulating it. >> im going to go listen to the dark side of the moon, pink floyd, in honor of this. that will do it for me. hallie jackson picks up our coverage next. picks up our picks up our coverage next. with every detail in sharp focus. thats seeing no limits. varilux lenses by essilor. trelegy for copd. [coughing] ♪ birds flyin high, you know how i feel. ♪ its a new day,... ♪ ...its time to make a stand. start a new day with trelegy. ♪...and im feeli...

A blizzard this weekend. theres still a lot of uncertainty about the storms track, but it looks very likely that some of the northeast could see up to a foot of snow in the next 48 hours. the storm is expected to hit late tomorrow and bring with it hurricane-strength winds. 35 million people will be on alert as storm watches go into effect from virginia beach through new england beginning this afternoon. and now to a wild story happening in outer space. a rocket on a collision course with the ...

>> how would we do a dramatic reading for that long? >> well only do 20 minutes or so. nasa says its monitoring a rogue spacex rocket booster that could crash into the moon in early march and leave behind a crater. the rocket has been floating around since its launch back in 2015. >> look, all i want to say is pick up your space junk. space debris, bad. thats it. "the lead with jake tapper" starts now. a new way for joe biden to make history. "the lead" starts right now. president biden sa...

A couple of times, because we left the size mom terometers on, and we left something, and then another time we left something at the poles, because we believed that there were a lot of water at the poles at the moon, and that would be useful for my moons that we create, and by kicking up the material, you get to see what the moon is made up of, and this is happening on the dark side of the moon, but not the dark side, but the far side of the moon, and the part that we dont get to see, so that is...

>> no. there is a chinese rover that is exploring the far side of the moon, but, you know, this is going to impact far from it, the odds of it having a detrimental impact, but 100 years from now, when there is 100 moon bases, it could be an impact. >> and the space junk is a problem, and lots of stuff out there, and you can see that there is some real benefits and the things that we can learn from space junk, what happens to it, what it impacts, and i feel like you are seeing some upsides to it....

The dawn of the space age, earths orbit has become a junk yard of dead satellites and abandoned rocket bodies. any time two objects traveling at 5 miles a second collide, the impact in real life, no people in space have ever been hit, but the international space station has. in 2016, a small piece of debris cracked a window on the orbiting outpost. and in december, the crew prepared for emergency evacuation, after a missile test created a massive debris cloud. >> we will need to activate dragon ...

Luging. >> yeah. exactly. when you want to see luge, there needs to be luge. >> bring it on. >> all right, chloe, thank you very much. the final frontier. it turns out to be a junkyard. earths orbit littered with debris that accumulated since the start of the space raise. now the biden administration is taking steps to clean it up. cnns kristin fisher is joining us now. i mean, this is a case of just dont have messed it up in the first place because you have trash in space and now you have all...

Given it a poor condition rating. this is not an uncommon thing. were in a county with a whole lot of bridges. if you look at the american society of civil engineers, they have said the state of pennsylvania, the bridges on average are 15 years older than bridges in the rest of the nation, so a lot of the infrastructure thats passed will be very welcome here to repair the bridges. >> clearly. athena jones, thank you so much. we appreciate it. listen, still to come. fears are intensifying over ...

Theres policy, an independent set of researchers saying, wait a minute, we need to write a manifesto, kind of the declaration of the moons right. basically saying it should be unaltered, unharmed, unpolluted by human beings. oops, we missed that by a galactic mile. so, think about it, the next 10, 20, 30 years were on the moon, astronaut stations heading out to mars. there are at least 30 to 50 other objects out there that could be impactful in one way or the other. its time to start cataloging ...