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That is not accurate.

Estimates are that the Dragon v2 has about 400m/s dV. This is around what it would need for controlled landing or abort. It takes around 1720m/s just to get to the stationary Lunar surface from Lunar orbit; If a Falcon upper stage detaches during the leg of the mission between Earth and Luna, the necessary delta V for the rest of the mission will be around 5080m/s. This is a lot. You would have to build another fairly large vehicle to accomplish this mission - Dragon v2 would be an afterthought.



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