We already crashed a vehicle into the moon over ten years ago.
The only difference is that the vehicle is purpose-built this time.
USA for teh win!!!
We’ve crashed lots of them, some on purpose, others not. Rangers 7-9 were “hard landing” photographic missions. Surveyors 2 and 4 were designed for soft landings but had glitches that made them go splat. Starting with Apollo 13, the spent S-IVB stage was targeted for lunar impact to provide seismic signals for the ALSEP seismometers.
In July 1964, Ranger 7 impacted the moon sending back thousands of pictures on its way in. A few more successful Ranger flights followed.