On Wednesday, the Moon is going to experience a collision as a drifting SpaceX rocket will smash itself to the lunar surface.

The upper section of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to impact the Moon on August 5 at approximately 02:35 EDT (06:35 GMT), according to Nasa's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

The drifting rocket debris is about the size of a five-storey building and weighs at least 4,000 kg and has been travelling at around 2.43 kilometers per second or about 5,400 mph.

According to the US space agency, the segment of the rocket from January launch 2025 was on an accidental collision course with the moon and it will land near the Einstein crater on........

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