On August 5, 2026, the abandoned upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will slam into the moon at roughly 5,400 mph — seven times the speed of sound — carving out a new crater near the Einstein Crater on the lunar near side.
In this video, we break down:
– Why this rocket stage ended up on a collision course with the moon
– How fast it’s traveling and what kind of crater it’ll leave behind
– Where and how to watch (or try to spot the impact)
– Why NASA and South Korea’s Danuri orbiter are watching closely
– What scientists hope to learn from a rare "natural experiment" like this
– How this compares to the only other known accidental lunar impact (a Chinese rocket in 2022)
This isn’t a planned mission — it’s leftover space junk from a January 2025 launch that carried two private lunar landers, one of which made history as the first fully successful private moon landing.
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