In Russia, a figurine of the director of Roscosmos was launched into space in a Zhiguli: Musk threatens with a battle. VIDEO

Tomsk start-up ToSky, engaged in the development and launch of aircraft in near space, launched a stratostat with a cardboard figure into the space of the general director of the Roscosmos state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, in toy Zhiguli in early June. Medusa.

Photo: vKontakte ToSky

The load for the launch was chosen according to the voting results in VKontakte: in the Zhiguli Rogozin was ahead, in particular, of Stephen Hawking and the cactus. In the very ToSky said that this launch wanted to draw attention to the lack of development of the field of flights into the near space in Russia - the company said that it was the first launch of the stratosphere in the country since 2013 year.

“During the flight into the stratosphere, Rogozin flew 150 kilometers in his red “seven”, with an average flight speed of 80 km/h. The drifting stratospheric balloon that delivered Rogozin to the stratosphere landed 2 thousand kilometers from the launch site, between Mongolia and China,” says the ToSky VKontakte page.

Technology publication Futurism published a note about the launch under the headline “Russia launched a toy car into space to mock Elon Musk.” Musk himself read a tweet about this and threatened to challenge his rivals to a rap battle, writing: “Don’t make me challenge you to a rap battle.”

In ToSky answered the Mask: "It's too late, Ilon, the challenge is accepted."

Photo: vKontakte ToSky

Photo: vKontakte ToSky

Photo: vKontakte ToSky

Photo: vKontakte ToSky

Recall, February 6 2018 of the year from the launch pad Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center went into space private car Ilona Mask Tesla Roadster, at the wheel of which was the Starman dummy, dressed in the spacex prototype developed in SpaceX.

It is noteworthy that following the results of the launch, the electric car received a number of official designations: in the satellite catalog it passes under the name TESLA ROADSTER / FALCON 9H with the number 43205, in the catalog of the National Center for the Analysis of US Space Research data it is assigned the number 2018-017A.

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