Space X offers first Mars POSTAL SERVICE - but it costs $62m per load to send cargo to Red Planet

SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk is aiming to launch a rocket to Mars by 2018, when Earth and the red planet will be at their closest

Space X's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with an unmanned Dragon cargo craft from the launch platform in Cape Canaveral

Space exploration company SpaceX is offering a new cargo delivery service to Mars.

But it doesn't come cheap - with a delivery starting at about £42 million.

The company, owned by billionaire Elon Musk , already have ambitious plans to launch a rocket to the red planet in 2018 - the next time Earth and Mars will be at the closest point in their orbits.

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