‘Things are going to get a lot busier near the moon’: Elon Musk rocket crashes as predicted

“There's no doubt in my mind" that the rocket “is now in teeny, little pieces scattered over the moon," said astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.

A huge chunk of abandoned Space X rocket is thought to have crashed into the moon - forming a wide crater on the lunar surface.

Musk outlined his vision to investors after SpaceX posted a $542 million loss from its space launch sector in its first quarter as a public company

Steve Nesius / REUTERS A part of one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets is believed to have smashed into the moon at 5,400 MPH. Researchers predicted that the section of rocket, the upper part of a Falcon 9 spacecraft, would make impact with the lunar surface at 2.35 am Eastern Time. The full spacecraft left Florida in Janu