Click for next articleSouth Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter captured this image of the crater blasted out by a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage when it hit the moon on Aug. 5, 2026. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, known as Danuri , has captured imagery of the crater blasted out by the Falcon 9 upper stage that slammed into the moon early on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5). SpaceX usually disposes of them in Earth's atmosphere , but the upper stage on the Blue Ghost-Resilience mission used almost all of its fuel getting its payloads to their distant destination. Another before-and-after image, with the "before" photo taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter back in 2015. The black area corresponds to the lunar disk @SpaceX @JuanLuisRizos @elonmusk @tiempobrasero @A3Noticias… pic.twitter.com/5Ry7hRdCeSAugust 6, 2026The Falcon 9 upper stage wasn't the first rocket body to slam into the moon.