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WASHINGTON - 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.
SpaceX will be getting to the moon a bit more than a month from now, far earlier than expected. But it is all by accident, and it will cause a bit of a mess. SpaceX, the rocket company started by Elon Musk, has been selected by NASA to provide the spaceship that will take its astronauts back to the surface of the moon. That is still years away. Instead, it is the 4-ton upper
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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.
Bill Gray was tracking a SpaceX rocket orbiting near the moon from his home in Maine when his computer software gave him a reading he didn't expect. Gray