Elon Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars and then bring them back to Earth on the same rocket they came in on. Nothing has ever been launched from Mars before, and Musk didn't go into all that much detail about how SpaceX would accomplish it. But he did says that it would all hang on one thing: methane.
Rather than carrying fuel from Earth for use on Mars, Musk wants SpaceX to create fuel when it gets there. Musk says SpaceX would rely on methane — "deep cryo-methalox," to be specific — because it can be created on Mars with "relative ease." SpaceX says it would "build a propellant farm" used to create new fuel and send its spaceships back.
Elon Musk wants to collect fuel on Mars to send spaceships back to Earth
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