A discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the MoonCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the Moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. But space experts said the crash could have been avoided if the upper stage had been nudged into orbit around the sun. Danuri will stray within a mile or two of the SpaceX rocket just two minutes before impact, according to Fernando and his team. NASA hurled rocket sections and lunar modules into the Moon during the Apollo era for seismic measurements. Decades later, in 2009, NASA intentionally crashed its LCROSS spacecraft and upper stage in search of ice near the lunar south pole.