Published on : 05/31/2020 – 16:04Modified : 05/31/2020 – 16:21
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SpaceX boss Elon Musk was thrilled after the successful launch of his space capsule on Saturday May 30. For the first time in years, the United States sent a manned flight into space and the American billionaire took advantage of a press conference to tickle Russian cosmonauts.
In terms of space conquest, politics is never far away and it is as if it had not changed since the Cold War. This Sunday, May 31, the American billionaire Elon Musk took advantage of a press conference on the successful launch of its first manned flight to respond to Russian mockery of 2014.
Six years ago, Dmitri Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency, had tackled the Americans over their inability to conduct manned space flights: ” They have such a hard time sending people into space that soon they will need a trampoline to join the International Space Station “
“ The trampoline works “
In front of the press, Elon Musk was not asked to answer him, hilariously, alongside the boss of NASA. ” You see that the trampoline works Launched the founder of SpaceX. The formula hit the headlines on social networks and caused a wave of mockery from Internet users.
Russia’s official response was swift. ” We don’t really understand the hysteria triggered by the successful launch of the capsule. What should have happened long ago ended up happening “Said the spokesman for Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, Vladimir Uustimenko.
“We do not intend to remain inactive”
” We do not intend to remain inactive. This year we will test two new rockets and next year we will resume our lunar program “Roskosmos spokesperson also said on Twitter. The boss of the Russian space agency, Dmitri Rogozin, had said the day before that Russia was planning in the fall a test launch of a heavy Angara rocket, supposed to replace the aging Proton launchers, but with very slow development.
He also said that Russia is accelerating the development of its intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat intercontinental, presented as supposed to overcome all kinds of missile defense systems. Since 2011 and the end of the American space shuttle program, the sending of American astronauts on the ISS could only be carried out on Russian Soyuz vessels.
Roskosmos assured that the United States still needed Russia, however. ” It is really important to have at least two options to get to the station. Because you never know… “said Ustimienko.
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