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  • Before SpaceX, back when Musk had his X.com/PayPal money, he tried to buy an ICBM from Russia with the purpose of modifying it to launch a mission to Mars*.

    The last meeting they had about it, Russia basically laughed him out of the room after they’d already tried to fleece him. So he founded SpaceX to get there instead.

    * Mars mission was really just to move some plants and bacteria to Mars - within the space community, there are some that want to limit/prevent exploration of extraterrestrial bodies for sake of contamination, that our bacterial load might change the course of natural evolution on a planet. Musk wanted to ‘pollute’ Mars in order to make that argument no long viable.

    Early SpaceX is pretty wild.