General Director Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin appreciated the founder’s success SpaceX Elon Musk in space. He expressed his opinion in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station.
He called Musk “an outstanding space enthusiast,” stressing that SpaceX has one particular owner and idea generator. He noted that he has great respect for the “engineering and propaganda” talents of the American entrepreneur and inventor.
The head of Roscosmos also recalled that private American Boeing and SpaceX are working on government money.
In October Rogozin noted that there is nothing brilliant in the inventions of SpaceX Mask … There is little achievement in the fact that an American private company can carry crews to the ISS, the official said. Dmitry Rogozin also stressed that he doubts the economics of reusable rocket launches proposed by SpaceX.
In early October, the Roscosmos state corporation, together with the private company Reusable Transport Space Systems (MTKS), decided to build a reusable transport spacecraft. As conceived by the authors of the project, the domestic development should compete with Elon Musk’s Crew Dragon ship. To date, SpaceX has completed 25 launches in 2020, 14 of which have launched Starlink satellites.