The space industry treats the sky as a place to dump what it no longer wants. We must develop a new model of accountability On 5 August, a piece of a derelict SpaceX rocket traveling at 5,400 miles an hour met with the moon and punched a fresh hole into it near Einstein Crater. Astronomers…
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Is it really okay that the moon just has one more hole in it? On August 5, 2026, the upper stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the lunar surface. It wasn't a deliberate attack. In January 2025, Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander "Blue...