In an upcoming collision, a spent rocket booster will be the first long-circulating piece of human-made debris to smash into the lunar surface.
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The incident poses no immediate danger to humans or other spacecraft, but with at least half a dozen craft, concern is growing about the lunar surface becoming an unintentional dumping ground. But never before has a piece of long-standing space junk — the booster will have been careering around space for more than seven years — collided with the Moon.is well known for the region around Earth. More than 12,000 Earth-orbiting satellites have been launched since the space age began in 1957, and about 5,100 of those are still operational, according to the European Space Agency.
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