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Not intentionally, of course:
A segment of a SpaceX rocket that launched seven years ago is currently on course to crash into the moon.
The booster was part of the Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from SpaceX's Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a space-weather satellite more than 600,000 miles from Earth.
We probably won't see it:The booster was part of the Falcon 9 rocket that lifted off from SpaceX's Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in February 2015 as part of a mission to send a space-weather satellite more than 600,000 miles from Earth.
Bill Gray, creator of Project Pluto, which supplies astronomical software that tracks objects near Earth to amateur and professional astronomers, wrote in a blog post that the impact likely will occur on the far side of the Moon on March 4 around 7:25 a.m. ET.
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In his blog post, Gray described the upcoming crash as the "first unintentional case" of space junk crashing on the Moon.
Who cares if we pollute the moon? We should turn into into a huge trash dump, just because it's there. Who's going to complain?...
In his blog post, Gray described the upcoming crash as the "first unintentional case" of space junk crashing on the Moon.