8 things Elon Musk wants you to know about SpaceX's monster BFR spaceship

During SpaceX's BFR / BFS lunar event, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa discusses why he wants to take six to eight artists with him to the moon. The newest designs for SpaceX's Big Falcon Rocket and Big Falcon Spaceship, which were unveiled at SpaceX's headquarters on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. Rather, it was how much it looks like spaceships of our imaginations. Landing vertically with three big fins, the BFR, as the rocket has been dubbed, looks somewhat like so many of those finned spaceships landing on distant planets in old science-fiction movies -- not like the more ungainly craft seen in films like in "2001: A Space Odyssey" or even in real life, like the lunar lander that delivered Neil Armstrong to the moon in 1969. As turns out, Musk, the billionaire who is CEO of the rocket maker as well as Tesla, the electric car maker, said looks played a role, not just functionality, in the design. "There's more than one way to solve this problem," he said.