A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a crew of four aboard the Dragon space craft lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. A wayward fragment from a SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year will unintentionally smash into the moon early Wednesday morning in a rare human-made lunar collision. The school-bus-sized SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster, now an abandoned piece of space debris, is on trajectory to strike the lunar surface at 5,400 mph around 12:35 a.m. MDT. Unintentional lunar impacts from space debris are rare, although the moon is regularly struck by natural objects such as meteoroids and asteroids. In the 1970s, NASA intentionally crashed stages from its Saturn V moon rocket into the lunar surface to study seismic effects.