A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage from a 2025 mission is on a collision course with the moon, expected to impact at approximately 2:30 local time. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage from a 2025 mission is on a collision course with the moon, expected to impact at approximately 2:30 local time. Credit: AP PhotoA drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. Danuri will stray within a mile or two (a few kilometers) of the SpaceX rocket just two minutes before impact, according to Fernando and his team. Decades later, in 2009, NASA intentionally crashed its LCROSS spacecraft and upper stage in search of ice near the lunar south pole.