A SpaceX Rocket Will Soon Crash Into the Moon

The second stage of a Falcon 9 rocket, which sent two private landers to the moon last year, will collide with the moon early Wednesday morning.

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First Object to Impact the Moon: The Soviet Union's Luna 2 spacecraft was the first human-made object to successfully impact another celestial body, crashing into the Moon on September 14, 1959.
First Successful Soft Landing on the Moon: The Soviet Union achieved the first controlled rocket-assisted soft landing on the Moon with its Luna 9 spacecraft on February 3, 1966, transmitting photographic data back to Earth.
Heaviest Objects Intentionally Crashed for Science: The five S-IVB third stages of Saturn V rockets from the Apollo program are the heaviest human-made objects intentionally crashed onto the lunar surface, used to generate seismic data for scientific study.