A year after drifting silently through space, a discarded SpaceX rocket booster found its end on the ancient surface of the moon, striking at 5,400 miles per hour and leaving a 60-foot crater that NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now photographed in striking detail. The collision — unplanned, unhurried, and inevitable — is a quiet reminder that the objects humanity launches into the cosmos do not simply vanish; they return, in their own time, to mark the worlds around us. As commercial spaceflight accelerates and the moon becomes a destination rather than a backdrop, such scars may grow