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ITS launch vehicle existing SpaceX launch vehicles and passenger/cargo spacecraft. The launch vehicle was initially mentioned in public discussions by Elon Musk in 2012 as part of SpaceX description of its overall Mars system architecture, then known as the "Mars Colonial Transporter" (MCT). MCT was SpaceX's name for its privately funded development project to design and build a spaceflight system of reusable rocket engines, launch vehicles and space capsules to eventually transport humans to Mars and return them to Earth. As early as 2007 however, Musk had stated a personal goal of eventually enabling human exploration and settlement of Mars. Bits of additional