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Actually SpaceX's first contract and the name 'Falcon' came from the DARPA Falcon Project https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project https://wikipedia.org
by georgeg23 4y ago
Actually SpaceX's first contract and the name 'Falcon' came from the DARPA Falcon Project
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project https://wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Falcon_Project
- bryanlarsen 4y agoI believe I read in Eric Berger's book Liftoff that the name came from the Star Wars Millennium Falcon. But your theory has some merit since the timing of the Falcon project's award to SpaceX could be coming about the same time that they named the rocket. Both theories may be right. The Falcon project grew out of the Reagan era Star Wars project, so it's likely a backronym.
- georgeg23 4y agoYou nailed it... Dig deeper and the story only gets more interesting.