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The license itself: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

As someone who has been waiting since the ITS presentation in 2016, I've very excited :)

Edit: they reuploaded with additional info: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

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I've been following it since even before that point when it was still called the "MCT", but without any explanation of what the acronym meant. A long time coming. This is the beginning of a new era in space exploration.

I remember it being called BFR, which stood for Big F**ing Rocket, lol

That came later after the MCT and then ITS acronyms. There's a history here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_development

> That came later after the MCT and then ITS acronyms

I believe there was a BFR originally [1], and it just returned later. But the real old one was the Falcon X and Falcon XX [2], which were to use the "Merlin 2" engine (giant RP/LOX engine a la the saturn V).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_program#Early_heav...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Falcon_X&oldid=38...

Big Falcon Rocket, to be spoken with only the straightest of faces.

Really wish they'd kept the BFR/BFB terminology, as that's what my shirts say. ;)

MCT was Mars Colonial Transport

It later became that but when MCT was first mentioned it was left up to the fan community to interpret what the acronym meant. Note also there was no images at that time, just a couple of fan artist conceptions on an imagined SpaceX made mars vehicle.

You and be both, I'm jumping out of my skin!

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