What to do if the Pelican breaks?

[Grim Graham]

Seriously, we had super rare samples.

[Roshambo]

Flap your arms really fast and pray that the orbital bombardment headed your way is enough to get you to orbit.

[Wilburoo]

You just lose them. We've gotten screwed out of super samples because of the pelican bugging out and saying it's landed but it's still 20 feet in the air, or it gets launched away by a reinforce pod/bile titan/charger/etc, or it's landed but "destroyed" so you can't actually board but it sits there waiting anyway.
They really need to either make the pelican invincible and prioritize it's positioning over everything else or at least set it to where if it gets destroyed it just ends the mission or allows you to call in a second attempt.