Founder and CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk confirmed that the company’s first fully operational spacecraft would be unveiled at an event on Saturday evening.

Now known as the Starship, the planned craft has also been referred to as the Big Falcon Rocket an Interplanetary Transport System since it was first announced several years ago. As of the Friday before the event, the Starship’s nosecone had been mounted in place, according to CNBC. The craft’s unveiling will be the next big step in SpaceX’s goal of helping humanity reach other planets.

SpaceX is also expected to unveil its plans for trips to the moon and Mars during the event. The hope for Starship is that it will be able to launch up to 100 passengers into deep space and be able to make multiple trips without needing new rockets each time, only requiring maintenance and refueling for each new trip.

Starship has been under construction at a facility in Texas. The current iteration features three engines, but later models are planned to have six of the company’s Raptor engines.

The talk begins at 8 p.m. ET. It can be seen live and on SpaceX official site.

"I am looking forward to the SpaceX announcement tomorrow," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine wrote Friday on Twitter. "In the meantime, Commercial Crew is years behind schedule. NASA expects to see the same level of enthusiasm focused on the investments of the American taxpayer."

"It's time to deliver."

SpaceX plans to begin offering commercial flights in 2021. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has already put down a “significant” deposit for a flight around the moon on Starship. Musk plans to begin unmanned missions to Mars in 2022, with human-manned missions taking place by 2024.

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