Friday Poll: A Capsule on Mars This Decade

This week, the private space company SpaceX announced that they had plans to land an unmanned capsule on Mars as early as 2018.  To do so would be a huge accomplishment, far more difficult that efforts to land probes on the red planet.

Let’s say, rather than 2018, SpaceX had until the end of the decade to do so – do you think that they could?

Here’s a video of a SpaceX test of a Dragon capsule’s ability to hover, from a test in January: