Sorry for the late post.
2 minutes to touchdown on the moon!
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it landed and transmits a signal 
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Yep, seems like it worked. 
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I’m conflicted.
I really like and applaud what SpaceX appear to be doing, but in the back of my mind - This is business not altruism (i.e. research/science for the benefit of all humanity).
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SpaceX only launched the thing. IM and NASA are responsible for the lander. So this is only half commercial.
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NASA only stuck some instruments on it. They hitched a ride with like $150m in experiments.
IM is the main impetus as that lander cost a lot more than $300m.
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Fair point. So it is mostly a commercial mission.
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So as exciting as it is, it sounds like mission failure because the lander either fell over landing on uneven ground or landed too fast and broke a landing leg.
IM CEO says they’re having trouble communicating with the probe, I guess they’re trying to work out what, if anything, they can salvage from the mission!
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I already suspected that when they landed. If the landing had been fully successful then they would have posted pictures very quickly.
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