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Elon Musk went to Moscow in October 2001, just a few weeks after 9/11/01. Twenty years later he would receive a backlash for comments and actions over the 9/11 health funds
Elon Musk's SpaceX Russia Trip: The Meeting That Started It All
October 2001 - Elon Musks sets out to buy three refurbished intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) from Russian companies NPO Lavochkin and Kosmotras. His project "Mars Oasis" goal was to send a robotic greenhouse to Mars. Some contend his goal was to challenge, embarrass, the efforts (or lack) of NASA. Cap 15 Elon Musk Biografia | PDF Some reports detail the event, the meeting, including him passing out because of a large amount of liquor consumed by Musk in Paris and then in Russia
The project was never launched. Instead, in May of the following year Musk founded SpaceX using $100 million earned from earlier projects (PayPal), thus allowing him to be CEO and Chief Engineer of the new venture. Elon Musk's SpaceX Russia Trip: The Meeting That Started It All
Elon Musk made no publicly visible comments about the travesties on 9/11/01. He was living in Silicon Valley at the time. However, he did give an explicit opinion in August 2024; about those involved in the attack, who were not on the planes, when their trial was concluded after a plea deal to avoid the death penalty. "Something is deeply wrong with our justice system" (1) Elon Musk on X: "Something is deeply wrong with our justice system" / X It garnered 33 million views, of which 2.5 million were in the first hour.
However, a larger response to his comments centered around his ability to defund the 9/11 health fund for victims families. It was later reversed. 9/11 victims fund gets 25 new applications a day as anniversary looms
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