[dotnet00]

You're mixing up stories. Elon was in Moscow prior to founding SpaceX as he was attempting to purchase an ICBM to refurbish into a rocket to send a terrarium to Mars.

He settled on founding SpaceX on the flight back because after the oligarchs lead him around a bunch with no intention of actually negotiating a sale, they straight up spat at him.

[morphle]

I was only vaguely alluding to the military background of Elon's contacts around the funding cycles of SpaceX. I'm sure we don't know the real story.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX