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But the rest of the mission has nothing to do with spacex?
They still built the rocket, didn't they?
You seem woefully uninformed: the rocket did its job already, it launched and inserted the Landers in the correct path. There's nothing more to do.
Do you really think the rocket is taking them all the way to the moon?
Please don't take me for an idiot, even if you disagree with my skepticism of Musk/SpaceX.
Ok, so the launch was completed successfully, fantastic, woo, yay. One point!
Ok so if I understand it correctly, they have performed TLI, sweet! Two points!
Now, some people here claim that SpaceX's role in the mission is over, I see it as that when their hardware is no longer used.
Over the years Musk and SpaceX have claimed everything from building a rocket shuttle service, to building Starship (should have been done by now, they have barely begun), to sending random people to the moon and more.
I don't think it is wrong of me to have a decent threashhold before believing every claim they make.
But there is no more SpaceX hardware involved after tli ...