how much fuel do you need to get to mars and back
In India's Mars mission, it took a launch vehicle called PSLV-C25, measuring 145 feet long and carrying over 200 tons of propellant fuel. That's less than half the fuel a space shuttle mission routinely carried.ndia launched its first spacecraft to Mars Tuesday on a trip that will last over 300 days at a cost of $72 million. The 3,000-pound orbiter named Mangalyaan â or Mars orbiter in Hindi â faces the unenviable task of traveling 485 million miles through space to visit the dusty, lonesome Red Planet.