The stray SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon about two weeks ago created a fresh crater wider than an NBA basketball court and up to 10 feet deep, NASA says. The measurements come from the space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter,

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. The space agency released before-and-after photos of the impact area on Tuesday.

A Nasa spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket. Source: Nasa Goddard/Intuitive Machines

Today it is a public corporation, with a massive valuation attached to all that amazement, and Elon Musk controls almost half of it. A new regulatory filing shows Musk held beneficial ownership of 48.

China successfully recovered the first stage of its Zhuque-3 rocket on land for the first time on August 19, using deployable landing legs in what state media called a major breakthrough in reusable rocket technology.

LandSpace’s ZhuQue-3, a privately developed Chinese rocket, successfully landed its first stage on August 19, marking China’s first successful land-based recovery of an orbital-class rocket booster. The achievement also makes LandSpace the first Chinese private company to recover an orbital-class booster on land using landing legs.

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The Beijing-based company LandSpace landed its Zhuque-3 rocket this evening (Aug. 18), notching a huge milestone for commercial Chinese spaceflight.