But the discarded upper stage of the Falcon 9 spent 18 months drifting in space before slamming into the surface of the moon at approximately 2:35 a.m. ET on Aug. 5.

A NASA lunar orbiter captured images of a crater left by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket part that crashed into the moon.

The defunct upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashed uncontrolled into the moon on Aug. 5 at an estimated 5,400 mph.

Nearly a month ago, SpaceX’s Starship splashed down in the Indian Ocean following its most recent test flight, but that wasn’t the end of the rocket’s journey.

Residents of Christmas Island were shocked to find a SpaceX rocket floating near their coast

Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX are on their way to a remote Australian island to retrieve part of a Starship that dived into the Indian Ocean.

Chinese space start-up LandSpace successfully landed and recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on Wednesday. The feat puts the firm in league with U.S. space companies Blue Origin and SpaceX—and it shows how close China is to the U.