Elon Musk in Russian paid tribute to the memory of the Soviet rocket designer

The founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk in Russian commented on the post of "Roscosmos" on Twitter about the Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev.

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The post of the Russian department is dedicated to the 114th anniversary of Korolev.

“Today the rocket and space industry celebrates the 114th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Korolev. The founder of practical cosmonautics, one of the largest scientists of the XNUMXth century in the field of space rocketry and shipbuilding, a Soviet designer,” writes Roscosmos.

Elon Musk responded briefly but to the point: “He was great.”

This is not the first Russian-language tweet of an American businessman regarding Korolev. He previously reported that spoke with the grandson of an academician and designer of rocket and space systems.

“I spoke with Korolev’s family today. He was one of the best,” said Elon Musk.

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The grandson of the Soviet scientist called Mask “a pleasant, very cheerful and positive person”, who “with great respect for the memory” of Sergei Korolev and considers him “one of the greatest engineers and outstanding people of his time.”

Who was Korolev

Sergei Korolev was born on January 12, 1907 in Zhitomir, which was then part of the Volyn province of the Russian Empire, writes with the BBC.

He studied in Odessa, and then at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Subsequently, for the sake of aircraft construction, he transferred to Moscow.

There he began working as an aircraft designer, and later as one of the leaders of the missile department of the jet research institute.

In 1938, during the years of Stalin’s “Great Terror,” Sergei Korolev was arrested on charges of “undermining state industry.”

He spent six years in camps, in particular in Kolyma, and worked under the leadership of another aircraft designer, Tupolev, who was also arrested, in a “closed design bureau” (the so-called “sharashka”) on the development of bombers.

After his release, he was the chief designer of Soviet ballistic missiles, and subsequently headed OKB-1 - “Special Design Bureau” - which was developing launch vehicles for space flights.

Under his leadership, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent a man into space.

He died of heart disease in 1966 and was buried in Moscow in the Kremlin wall.

Russia and Ukraine are waging an unspoken “war” over Korolev’s nationality. Since he was born during the Russian Empire, it is not easy to determine exactly his nationality. Some argue that in addition to Ukraine and Russia, Belarus may “claim” Korolev, since the academician’s parents were from there.

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