{"id":3610,"date":"2026-08-18T02:15:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:15:43","slug":"wayward-spacex-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon-kicks-up-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Wayward SpaceX rocket crashes into the moon, kicks up dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Part of a used SpaceX rocket floating in space since last year crashed at high speed into the moon on Wednesday. The object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that \u200chad launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the impact was not visible to the naked eye on Earth, a telescope in Chile spotted what astronomers have identified as the debris plume resulting from the crash.<\/p>\n<p><video src=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-08-06\/Wayward-SpaceX-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon-kicks-up-dust-1PnN0oIFak8\/video\/wu_1jvahiamabc01o2i1iomfa427hjf\/wu_1jvahiamabc01o2i1iomfa427hjf.m3u8\" poster=\"https:\/\/video.cgtn.com\/news\/2026-08-06\/Wayward-SpaceX-rocket-crashes-into-the-moon-kicks-up-dust-1PnN0oIFak8\/video\/wu_1jvahiamabc01o2i1iomfa427hjf\/wu_1jvahiamabc01o2i1iomfa427hjf.jpg\"><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a used SpaceX rocket floating in space since last year crashed at high speed into the moon on Wednesday. The object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that \u200chad launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025.\u00a0 Although the impact was not visible to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}