Discarded SpaceX craft crash-lands on the MoonA discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage has crash-landed on the Moon. The 4-metric-ton craft was travelling about 8 690 KM per hour when it collided with the lunar surface today (5 August). Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX tracked the upper stage, which had been used in a commercial mission. NASA and SpaceX remain in communication about the upper stage and its flight path. The rocket stage is expected to have created a crater about 60 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and thrown dust and rock outward as ejecta.