Russian President Vladimir Putin praised on Wednesday (16), billionaire Elon Musk and compared him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the spatial success of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
The information was released by the Russian state news agency Tass.
Tass states that Putin talked about Russia’s space policy at a meeting with students.
“You know, there is a person who lives in the United States, it can be said that they are absolutely crazy by Mars,” he said.
Putin was quoted by the agency making a comparison between Musk and Sergei Korolev, a Soviet engineer who was fundamental to the success of the Soviet Union by sending Yuri Gagarin in the first manned space flight in history in 1961.
“These people rarely appear in the human population, loaded with a certain idea. Although it may seem amazing today, after a while, such ideas often come true,” Putin said, Tass said.
Putin had already praised Musk, whose commercial interests include Spacex space technology company as “an extraordinary person.”
One of US President Donald Trump’s top counselors, Musk has become increasingly critical of Ukraine, who has been fighting Russia since 2022, when Kremlin ordered to send tens of thousands of troops to neighboring territory.
This content was originally published in Putin praises Musk and compares billionaire to the father of the Soviet Space Project on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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