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An Out Of Control SpaceX Rocket Is Going To Smash Into The Moon

Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas

03:39 26 Jan 2022


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An out-of-control rocket is going to crash into the moon.

The Space X Falcon 9 booster was launched in 2015, and has been hurtling through the abyss since.

It was originally tasked with helping launch an observatory satellite, and became derelict after its job was done.

That was as part of a science project first examined by US Vice President Al Gore.

 

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We Won't See It

Space commentator, Leo Enright, says it is likely to smash into the wrong side of the moon in early March:

"Unfortunately we wont see it because its going to crash into the far side of the moon."

"No chance of any of us seeing it."

"But hopefully one of the spacecraft circling the moon - either American or Chinese - will get a decent picture of the hole it makes in the moon.

"Now that could teach us something scientific."

He says the Earth is very likely dragging this device back towards us.

"But the moon is in the way, so BANG!"

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