Exciting news! The Dragon capsule, using drag and retro-thrusters to decelerate, could even land at much higher elevations than previous Mars missions using par

Exciting news! The Dragon capsule, using drag and retro-thrusters to decelerate, could even land at much higher elevations than previous Mars missions using parachutes for breaking. There also was the idea to use it for sample return missions, not sure what became of that. EDIT: Seems to be planned for 2022 at the earliest, see http://www.space.com/30504-spacex-red-dragon-mars-sample-return.html http://www.space.com/30504-spacex-red-dragon-mars-sample-ret...