SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project
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by londons_explore
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So the whole reason for spending years redesigning new rocket engines that use methane instead of kerosene was that mars has CO2 which could be used to make more fuel. Methane has lots of other downsides which hurt the viability of the ship.
But if the moon is the target, that goes out of the window and they could have just scaled up the existing F9 rocket design and could have been there years ago.
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