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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, drifting in space for over a year after its 2025 lunar mission, slammed into the moon at 5,400 mph—creating a new crater and marking only the second known rocket stage crash on the lunar surface. Originally meant to carry two landers (one from Firefly succeeded, the other failed), the booster’s unexpected trajectory caught scientists’ attention—and NASA and South Korea’s orbiters are now documenting the impact to study how space debris affects the moon’s surface. With space traffic rising, this accidental collision underscores the urgent need to track orbital junk as more missions head to the Moon.

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