The rocket body ⁠was due to hit the moon about 6.35am BST, crashing into its surface at 5,400mph (8,690 km/h). View image in fullscreen The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in January 2025. More recently, a Chinese rocket stage crashed into the moon in March 2022 after completing a lunar test mission. In 2009, Nasa intentionally crashed a rocket stage into the moon to study the plume of lunar material kicked up by the impact. The SpaceX rocket​ carried two lunar landers ​f​or the 2025 mission, successfully launching them towards the moon.