A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted after drifting off course for the past year, scientists say. In 2022, a Chinese rocket unintentionally hit the moon following a lunar mission, and many more stray rocket pieces likely struck the moon in decades past without scientists’ knowledge. “There’s no doubt in my mind” that the rocket “is now in teeny, little pieces scattered over the moon near Einstein Crater,” McDowell told the Associated Press. Like McDowell, Langbroek said he had “no doubt” the rocket met its doom. Visual confirmation, McDowell noted, will have to wait for NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to fly over the crash scene and send back photos of the impact crater.