In response to Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian Space Agency, who six years ago was unable to send manned spaceflight, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said the jumping trampoline had performed.
Amidst tensions between the two countries, during which Moscow threatened to stop space cooperation with Washington, Rogozin said in 2014 that American astronauts may need "trampolines" to reach the International Space Station.
Musk, speaking at a press conference held on Sunday alongside NASA director Jim Braidenstein, joking after a successful launch of a SpaceX missile, said that "the trampoline" did its job.
"It's a joke," the 48-year-old businessman added before the two men laughed.
This hint ignited Russian social media, and there were many comments and jokes on the Internet that ridiculed Rogozin.
This forced the spokesman for the head of the Russian Space Agency to respond.
"We don't really understand the hysteria caused by the successful launch of the Crow Dragon capsule," Vladimir Ostimenko said in a Tweet on Twitter. He added: It should have happened a long time ago.
The successful launch of the SpaceX missile is seen as a blow to Russia, which has so far been the only country able to send astronauts to the International Space Station since 2011.