{"id":18265,"date":"2018-11-19T22:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/goodbye-bfr-hello-starship-elon-musk-gives-a-classic-name-to-his-mars-spaceship\/"},"modified":"2018-11-19T22:24:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:24:40","slug":"goodbye-bfr-hello-starship-elon-musk-gives-a-classic-name-to-his-mars-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/goodbye-bfr-hello-starship-elon-musk-gives-a-classic-name-to-his-mars-spaceship\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, BFR \u2026 hello, Starship: Elon Musk gives a classic name to his Mars spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist\u2019s conception shows SpaceX\u2019s Starship in flight. (SpaceX Illustration)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

First it was the Mars Colonial Transporter, or MCT \u2026 then it was the Interplanetary Transport System, or ITS \u2026 then it was the Big Falcon Rocket, or BFR. Now it\u2019s Starship.<\/p>\n

Tonight SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced the latest name for the spaceship that he says SpaceX aims to use to deliver a million people to Mars, send a Japanese billionaire and an assortment of artists around the moon and back, carry passengers on supersonic trips around the globe, and basically do everything big that needs to be done in space.<\/p>\n

The name change comes just days after Musk tweeted that the design for the spaceship is being radically revised once again. \u201cNew design is very exciting! Delightfully counter-intuitive,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Musk hasn\u2019t yet shared details on the design, but he did discuss the new nomenclature for the upper-stage spaceship and its mammoth first-stage booster. Here\u2019s how it all went down on Twitter:<\/p>\n