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By Lucie AubourgAgence France-PresseWASHINGTON — A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory.Since then, the second stage of the rocket, or booster,
By Lucie AubourgAgence France-PresseWASHINGTON — A chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission will crash into the Moon in March, experts say.The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory.Since then, the second stage of the rocket, or booster,
If you’re one of those people who believes there’s a secret base occupied by humans on the dark side of the Moon, you might want to send them a message that a rocket will crash there in a few weeks … and make sure they know it was sent by Elon Musk’s SpaceX so they... Read more »
This is believed to be the first unintentional case of space junk hitting the moon, one astronomer said.
The upper stage of the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, launched seven years ago, is expected to impact the moon on March 4, based on astronomers' research.