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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage, leftover from a January 2025 mission carrying Firefly’s Blue Ghost rover, is set to slam into the moon’s Einstein crater tomorrow at 2:44 AM Eastern — but don’t look for it with your own eyes. The impact will be too faint to see from Earth, even with top telescopes. While accidental, this isn’t the first time humans have intentionally or unintentionally marked the lunar surface — NASA did the same in 2009 to hunt for water ice. This forgotten piece of hardware is a quiet reminder that space junk carries history — and sometimes, it crashes back down in unexpected ways.

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