A part of a rocket flies to the moon. It is a part of a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket belongs to the company SpaceX. The company belongs to the rich man Elon Musk. Experts say: The hit happens on 5 August. This is an accident. Nobody plans this hit. SpaceX says nothing yet. People on Earth cannot see the hit.
The US space agency NASA checks everything. A probe flies to the hit site. The probe is the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. It takes photos of the hit. Experts get more facts this way. The rocket started in January 2025. It brought 2 landers into space. One comes from the USA. One comes from Japan.
An accident like this happened before. 4 years ago a rocket part hit the moon. NASA thought: The part was from China. China said: This is not true. Sometimes researchers plan such hits. They do this for science. This new hit in August is not planned. It is space junk.
