HAWTHORNE, CA (KFOR) – Part of a SpaceX rocket used to launch a pair of robotic commercial lunar landers is expected to crash into the moon early Wednesday morning.
The collision is offering researchers an unplanned opportunity to study the impact.
While the rocket’s first stage, the booster used for liftoff, has returned to Earth, Falcon 9’s second, upper, stage served as the in-space workhorse to propel the landers on their path to the moon…