Good news on that! The Falcon Heavy is tentatively scheduled to have its first flight in April-May 2016. The Dragon v2 capsule is designed for powered landings,

Good news on that! The Falcon Heavy is tentatively scheduled to have its first flight in April-May 2016. The Dragon v2 capsule is designed for powered landings, which is how the in-flight abort thing works. Combine the two, and fiddle with the configuration a bit, and you can land in a whole lot of desirable parts of the solar system. Want to send a Mars rover? They're calculating that they can deliver 2-4 tons of payload to the surface of Mars. Want to send an unmanned mission to the moon, or Europa? Ditch the parachutes and add extra propellant to make up for the lack of aerobraking. And so on -- it could be an incredible boon for planetary science.