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The world's richest man has been vocal about his goal of making humanity a multiplanetary species, including developing rockets to colonize Mars by 2050.
A team from Spanish technological centre Tekniker said it involved making 'the first reactor to produce space propellant on Mars using the planet's air', which is 95 per cent carbon dioxide.
Understanding sex, and how it will work in a low gravity environment, is essential, according to the academics from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Elon Musk has drip-fed details of a future Martian settlement, including the idea of 'glass domes' acting as temporary habitats while the planet is terraformed.
NASA expects it will take about 500 days for humans to reach the Red Planet, but Canadian engineers say a laser-based system could cut that journey down