Re:SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond ...
by Symmetry on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @10:53AM
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Not on the Moon. On Earth or Mars it can aerobrake away most of its orbital velocity but you can't do that on Mars. The Dragon 2 only carries 400 m/s of delta-v and you'd need 1.7 km/s to get from low lunar orbit to the surface even ignoring the need to brake into an orbit.
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