Just a few hours ago the chief of the Russian space agency officially invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson to visit Baikonur on October 5 to attend the launch of Soyuz MS-19, which is taking a crew to the space with actors and a director to shoot a movie.
Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin announced that he invited entrepreneurs Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Richard Branson to launch of the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft, which will take place from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
“Today I am sending an invitation to Mr. Elon Musk, we would like to invite both Mr. Branson and Mr. Bezos,” Rogozin said on Wednesday, August 25, on the air Channel One.
Elon Musk himself has not yet flown into space, but he carried out the first commercial manned launch in history. Last May, Crew Dragon delivered two astronauts to the ISS. And already during this flight, Musk announced that his SpaceX company plans to send Tom Cruise into space to shoot a film in orbit. But here he will not be the first.
“It’s amazing to see all these cool things that he does in real orbit, on a real space station. I would have seen such a movie! ” – said Elon Musk.
Perhaps it is Musk who will be the dearest guest for Dmitry Rogozin. On social networks, they have a whole history of correspondence. After congratulations from the head of Roscosmos on the successful launch of Crew Dragon, Musk even spoke in Russian: “Thank you, sir, we look forward to mutually beneficial and prosperous long-term cooperation.”
Now it remains to wait for the answer to the already classic Russian question: “How do you like this, Elon Musk? Should we wait for a visit?”
The Baikonur Cosmodrome is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.
The Cosmodrome is the world’s first spaceport for orbital and human launches and the largest (in area) operational space launch facility. The spaceport is in the desert steppe of Baikonur, about 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of the Aral Sea and north of the river Syr Darya. It is near the Tyuratam railway station and is about 90 meters (300 ft) above sea level. Baikonur Cosmodrome and the city of Baikonur celebrated the 63rd anniversary of the foundation on 2 June 2018.
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