Parachutes = Good.
For two very good reasons.
1) Parachutes use no fuel in braking. That's less mass to haul around and less explosively combustible shit in and around the crew compartment.
2) If you can get your parachute to deploy that's it, there's not much else to go wrong. I haven't got time to go through the massive list of things that must work for a retro-rocket landing to be successful.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
