{"id":289924,"date":"2026-08-05T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T07:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289924"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T09:22:51","slug":"spacex-rocket-part-set-to-crash-into-moon-as-nasa-says-earth-is-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/289924\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket part set to crash into Moon as NASA says Earth is safe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A stray piece of a SpaceX rocket is travelling through space at about 8,690 km\/hr and is on course to collide with the Moon, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The crash won’t be visible to the naked eye, but people with access to a sophisticated telescope may see a flash from the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Nasa spokesperson Jimi Russell has said the collision “poses no danger to Earth.”<\/p>\n

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched in January 2025, with its upper section – now headed for the Moon – being discarded.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A stray piece of a SpaceX rocket is travelling through space at about 8,690 km\/hr and is on course to collide with the Moon, the BBC writes. The crash won’t be visible to the naked eye, but people with access to a sophisticated telescope may see a flash from the lunar surface. In a statement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289927,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289924\/revisions\/289927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}