Rocket part soon expected to crash into Moon, likely carving out a crater

Published March 4, 2022

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U.S. News & World Report quoted John Crassidis, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, on the looming collision of space debris with the moon. 

“The moon is going to be perfectly fine,” he said, noting, however, that the development shows there are increasing reasons to be concerned about the issue of space debris. “We’re starting to take our problems that we have on Earth to the moon right now,” he said.

Read the story here. Crassidis was quoted in similar articles in Daily Beast and ABC News 10 in Albany.