Space Rocket Heads for Moon | Dayton News

Dayton News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 4, 2026 · 1m

A SpaceX rocket upper stage, launched a year ago to carry lunar landers, is on a collision course with the moon — set to slam into the surface at 5,400 mph on Wednesday, creating a 90-foot-wide crater. Not part of the mission plan, this accidental impact echoes a similar Chinese rocket strike in 2022. While too dim for Earthly eyes, the debris cloud will be visible through telescopes, and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and South Korea’s Danuri orbiter will capture before-and-after images — Danuri even passing by just minutes before impact. Scientists see value in studying the effects…