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Comment by jjk166

6 months ago

The "Falcon" name dates back to many years before the BFR concept. Then the BFR started out as "Big Fucking Rocket" and the F was retroactively changed to Falcon as a tongue in cheek way of keeping the acronym in respectable conversation. That said, BFR was always just a descriptive placeholder.

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