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There was more fuel on-board for the auxiliary propulsion systems and for the various modules, but the above was the fuel used to get the payload into space and to the moon. That's a total of 3,787,350 liters of fuel, or just over 1 million gallons of liquid fuel with a fuse! Wow! Of interest: Europe is preparing plans to join the U.S. in building a manned spaceship that will take men and women to the moon.
I haven't heard about this new news you're talking about, but I do know that they'll still need fuel to get there, and, even if they use this moon strategy, they'll still need fuel to get back. I'm heard they they plan on sending fuel ahead to Mars, so it'll already be there for their return trip.ou have to use up quite a bit of fuel to launch from the Moon. But Mars has more gravity. A launch from the surface of Mars requires that much more fuel. Just getting to Mars requires less fuel than getting to the Moon.