>It's big vindication for the bouncing ball approach Not really, it's only been used for a few Mars missions, and not recently. For lunar missions you don't ha

>It's big vindication for the bouncing ball approach Not really, it's only been used for a few Mars missions, and not recently. For lunar missions you don't have the benefit of aerobraking, so you have to use so much fuel to slow down already, the math doesn't work out to use airbags at the last step.