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Falcon 9 Slams Into Moon Accidentally | Salt Lake City News
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, drifting in space since January 2025, slammed into the moon at 5,400 mph—creating a fresh crater and sparking a major space debris update. Originally part of a mission carrying two commercial landers (one successful, one failed), the booster was never meant to hit lunar soil. Experts confirm it was an accident caused by an unplanned trajectory. NASA and South Korea’s Danuri orbiter are now racing to capture before-and-after images to study how such debris affects the moon’s surface. This marks only the second known case of a discarded rocket stage striking…
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