...Except you've things like mice and want to prove that the damned thing can support life for quite a few days, if not weeks - how you think they ended up with mousetronauts?

Sorry, but I'm not putting vetted, enthusiastic people in the damn thing until the hardware proves it can maintain a breathable atmo.

And it has. This question was asked - and - even with chutes, it was "Well, you'd have to strap in with cargo and descend really quick, but we have atmospheric stuff on board...it'd be uncomfortable."

How the hell are you supposed to test Dragon 2 unless you use the same stuff in Dragon 1 with things like mousetronauts and "Fine - leave it sealed - pop the airlock later, it'll have hit equilibrium for oxygen generation and nitrogen injection - ISS gets just above positive pressure and you load the thing up. Can we stop now?"

Point is...It has one. It's had one. In an emergency, open the airlock and hit the "OH SHIT!" button inside DAGRON!!!11 1 - see if the crazy Hawthorne bastards have something that can process and generate oxygen.

D1 - yeah, the Dracos just orient the thing to a re-entry profile, and it burns like all the others.

That said, the fucking thing lands so closely to the planned spot that NASA can take pretty pictures of the parachutes.

No more must we hunt for things like spacecraft; we merely need things like EYE, Coventry, and Thalassa...

Fucking thing comes in precisely, steers itself precisely since it has engines on it and lands just off of Long Beach.

NASA's going "We'll mobilize the Pacific Nat'l Guard and Coast Guard ships available!!11" and SpaceX is going "Yeah, it'll land about where I said it would.

Just get a ship or three out there."

So - ehhh.