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Because it was a design requirement of the Dragon. It was designed to do that.



It definitely was not designed to de-orbit and land on the moon. It has nowhere near enough dV to do that.

Maybe it has been designed to work as a technology platform for deriving a lunar lander. But the Dragon 2 design is just not capable of doing it, not even close.




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