the Founder of SpaceX Elon Max, whose company recently carried out a cosmic breakthrough, worked 24 hours a day to succeed in the business. International columnist Yulia Latynina in the air of «Echo of Moscow», talks about how he did it.
According to her, «Musk became a billionaire not because he played hockey with Putin or be his masseuse, or cook, or guard.»
«This is the man who came to America, the emigrant, who was studying physics at the University of Pennsylvania, who came to Stanford in 95-m to year, has stayed there for two days, left the University,» she said.
Latynina recalled that Musk founded his first company at age 24. «He had exactly $2500 dollars, and a computer. This company it 4 years later sold for $300 million, founded PayPal. Then he sold his stake in PayPal to eBay already for $200 million And then in 2002 he launched SpaceX, and in 2003, Tesla» she said.
According to Latynina, Musk has extreme eccentricity, «as the permissible genius». She noted that he hired the best engineers and worked with them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. His goal was the colonization of Mars, indicates Latynina, as well as the radical reduction in the cost of space flight.
His company for less than 20-year history has created several rockets, including the Falcon and Falcon 9. «They’ve actually created a reusable rocket, they created the Merlin engines INAUDIBLE and Draco, they created the Dragon spacecraft. I want to remind you that it was one man, an emigrant, who founded his first company — 2.5 thousand dollars,» – said Latynina.
«And that’s interesting, rhetorical question: why immigrant Elon Musk did not come to Russia?», she asks, Recalling that in the XVIII-XIX centuries Russia «was a place where Germans came, the French, anyone he did a great career.» In her slum, ROSand this became the Empire, including, and especially, thanks to European immigrants, in particular, on the throne.
«And how do you think soon would be if he came to Russia and began to do private space company, he was imprisoned, and some of Putin’s friends took to his development and ruined everything?», – she notes.
on may 30 the launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida, the ship was launched by the American company SpaceX with the manned spacecraft Crew Dragon, which successfully docked to the ISS, bringing the station astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken. According to the Mask, this event is the pride of all mankind and the first step to «multiplanetary» future.
Musk also admitted that after two years in the optimistic development can take place a flight around the moon, and maximum term called the four years.
In 2014, after the introduction of us sanctions against Russia, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin offered to send U.S. astronauts to the ISS using the trampoline. After the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket with Crew Dragon Mask Rogozin recalled his words: «Trampoline works.»
Meanwhile, discussion of the event in social networks shows that many believe all this is more proof that Russia is not just lagging behind but moving in the opposite direction of progress.
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