Planning to send Dragon to Mars as soon as 2018. Red Dragons will inform overall Mars architecture, details to come
Backtrackedcancelled 1y 2m after the promise
— SpaceX, primary source
SpaceX tweet of 27 April 2016. Red Dragon was to be an uncrewed Dragon 2 capsule landing on Mars under rocket power.
What happened: In February 2017 SpaceX moved Red Dragon to the 2020 window. On 19 July 2017 Musk said SpaceX had dropped propulsive landing for Dragon, the method Red Dragon depended on, and the mission was never flown. As of October 2026, no Dragon has gone to Mars.