SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

anticensor

Let's make it intentional and controlled then.

trueno

inb4 wreckage on the moon that stays there forever

spwa4

What I think is very ironic is that Blue Origin actually beat SpaceX to Mars, after a decade of SpaceX "make life multiplanetary". A few months after Blue Origin did that SpaceX announced now they'll just go to the Moon, no more Mars. https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-blue-origin-launch-tw...

LeoPanthera

"List of artificial objects on the Moon" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_on_... It's a lot more than you might think, and I couldn't find a comprehensive list of the non-spacecraft objects, some of which are hinted at in the first paragraph.

drivebyhooting

Several times the speed of sound? That is meaningless when there is no media for the sound waves. I think a better unit might be furlongs per fortnight.

flockonus

Curious to see if to what intensity the Moon will "ring like a bell" at this one. ref: https://books.google.ie/books?id=6QAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA...

the_king

I cannot wait for Starship to become a real thing, but you have to admit it's way behind schedule. The engines are awesome now.