Watch SpaceX’s Rocket Hit the Moon—Real Videos Reveal What Happened
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A discarded SpaceX rocket hit the Moon on August 5, 2026—but nobody captured a clear image of the collision. The object was a spent Falcon 9 upper stage left behind after launching Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s RESILIENCE lunar landers. After drifting through cislunar space for more than a year, the nearly four-ton rocket stage struck the Moon near the Einstein and Bell crater region at approximately 5,400 miles per hour. Although astronomers did not record a dramatic explosion, the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope detected sodium and lithium extending above the lunar surface shortly after the expected impact. Scientists believe this chemical plume provides strong evidence of what happened when the Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the Moon. Now, researchers are waiting for new orbital images that could reveal the resulting lunar impact crater and show whether predictions about its size and shape were correct. In this video, we follow the SpaceX rocket
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