'In an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets on May 31, the day after the Dragon Crew launch, Andrei Korolev said he was “very happy” for Musk and SpaceX and “proud” of the American's achievement.
He said at the time that Russia should also allow private aerospace companies to be involved in all aspects of the industry and not leave everything to the control of Roskosmos, the state space agency.'Elon Musk, the American entrepreneur and founder of aerospace company SpaceX, has invited the family of famed Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev to visit his operations in the United States.
Musk tweeted on July 10 that he had spoken with the Korolev family, adding that the Soviet scientist was “one of the very best” in his field.
Andrei Korolev, the grandson of the scientist, told Russian media on July 11 that the family had written to Musk shortly after the successful launch of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship to the International Space Station at the end of May.
The launch ended Russia’s decade-long monopoly on travel to the space station and was the first by a private company.
Musk later spoke with the Korolev family for about 20 minutes via videoconference, Andrei Korolev said.
Andrei Korolyev said Musk invited the family to visit his SpaceX factory and observe a space launch once coronavirus travel restrictions have ended.
In an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets on May 31, the day after the Dragon Crew launch, Andrei Korolev said he was “very happy” for Musk and SpaceX and “proud” of the American's achievement.
He said at the time that Russia should also allow private aerospace companies to be involved in all aspects of the industry and not leave everything to the control of Roskosmos, the state space agency.
In the same interview, he criticized Roskosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin for saying in 2014 that the United States should use a trampoline to reach the International Space Station. Rogozin made the comments after Washington imposed sanctions on him.
“Everyone who read and saw that was embarrassed,” Andrei Korolev told Moskovsky Komsomolets.
Following the successful launch of the Crew Dragon, Musk, in a troll of Rogozin, retorted that “the trampoline is working.”
Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, was largely responsible for the launch of Sputnik, the world's first satellite.
Andrei Korolev, who lives in Moscow, is a professor and medical doctor focusing on sports injuries.
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Elon Musk Invites Family Of Famed Soviet Rocket Scientist To Tour SpaceX, July 11, 2020
'At the Helsinki airport in 1999, during his second visit abroad as prime minister, Vladimir Putin stopped to answer a question about the situation in Chechnya posed by a local journalist who spoke slowly, in Russian, while reading from a slip of paper.
“First, you and I are on an uneven playing field,” Putin snapped angrily. “You read your pre-prepared question from a piece of paper, but I am supposed to give you an immediate answer.” For Putin, a product of the Soviet secret services, reading a question from a piece of paper indicated that someone else had written the question and “fed it” to the journalist. In fact, the Finnish journalist just wanted to be as accurate as possible in asking a difficult question.
Putin has not changed his opinion of journalists since.
For the first 20 years of his rule, however, he charged his political assistants — presidential administration officials, loyal oligarchs or sycophantic media managers — with controlling what he viewed as the journalist threat.
Now, Putin has entrusted the “journalist question” to his counterintelligence agencies, giving them the resources necessary to explain quickly and clearly which additional subjects are now off-limits for everyone but a select few.'
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Safronov’s Arrest Is a New Low for Freedom of Speech in Russia, July 8, 2020
Context“Crimea is our land. We did not give it to Russia, nor did we sell it” Powerful final court address by Crimean Tatar human rights defender, July 10, 2020
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