On Wednesday, August 5th, at 06:35 UTC (11:35 p.m. PDT; 2:35 a.m. EDT), a 13.8-meter (45-ft) long, 4,000 kg (9,000 lbs) spent upper stage once belonging to a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket struck the Moon. The spent stage struck the western "lunar limb," close to the Einstein Crater on the moon's dayside while traveling at roughly 8,700 km/h (5,400 mph). "Through this observation, changes in the terrain around the impact site and traces of ejecta spread were confirmed." As more rockets are sent to space and human activity increases in cislunar space, spent stages and debris will become a growing concern. While this is not the first time that space debris has impacted the Moon, as NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman indicated in a post on X, this risk of impacts will increase as more launches are made.