But they were intentional, whereas Dr Tucker said Wednesday’s incident was “trying to turn Elon Musk lemons into lemonade”. “SpaceX has done a huge amount of work making things reusable and as responsible as they possibly can … and yet still, with all of the efforts they have made, we have tonnes of SpaceX debris that lands on the Earth. “There have been multiple of these events in Australia alone of SpaceX debris landing.” He said Australia is in a latitudinal band at higher risk of being a landing zone for debris. Camera Icon The Falcon 9’s spent upper stage struck the moon at seven times the speed of sound.