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Elon Musk just announced a new name for the 387-foot-long SpaceX rocket he wants to send to Mars

Elon Musk and his company SpaceX have been working on a gigantic, 39-story spacecraft that's designed to eventually send humans to Mars.

  • Elon Musk
  • SpaceX
  • Big Falcon Rocket
  • released the final design
  • plans to launch the first human voyage

SpaceX has long been touting a rocket in the works that wants to be the first to put people on Mars, and all that hype now comes with a new name.

Elon Musk, the company's CEO, took to Twitter late Monday night to reveal the new name of the 387-foot SpaceX rocket. Up until now, the rocket has been operating under the name Big Falcon Rocket — dubbed BFR, and also referred to by many (including Musk) as the "Big F-----g Rocket."

But now, the rocket is named Starship.

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The spacecraft technically consists of two parts: the spaceship that holds people and cargo, called Starship, and the booster that launches the rocket to Mars, called Super Heavy.

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SpaceX's BFR project has made headlines for what Musk sees as the rocket's end goal: to eventually bring humans to Mars. Last month, Musk said in an interview that SpaceX is eyeing 2024 for the launch.

Final designs for the rocket, released in September, present a fully reusable booster and fully reusable spaceship, designed to hold 100 people or 150 tons of cargo. Musk estimates the rocket will cost between $2 billion and $10 billion to create.

To help understand the magnitude of what Musk and his thousands of employees at SpaceX are trying to accomplish, Business Insider created an interactive size-comparison graphic.

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Next to the rendering of the rocket shown below, you'll see a series of familiar objects at the rocket's base. (Some are so small that you may have to scroll down a bit.) Toggle through the 20 comparisons by clicking "next" or "back" to get a sense of the rocket's scale:

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