{"id":124943,"date":"2021-07-14T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russias-space-chief-wishes-his-oligarchs-invested-in-space-like-branson-and-musk"},"modified":"2021-07-14T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:24:24","slug":"russias-space-chief-wishes-his-oligarchs-invested-in-space-like-branson-and-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/russias-space-chief-wishes-his-oligarchs-invested-in-space-like-branson-and-musk","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s space chief wishes his oligarchs invested in space like Branson and Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russias-space-chief-wishes-his-oligarchs-invested-in-space-like-branson-and-musk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/07\/heres-why-richard-bransons-flight-matters-and-yes-it-really-matters\/\">Sir Richard Branson\u2019s spaceflight<\/a> this weekend, the leader of Russia\u2019s main space corporation, Roscosmos, offered some kind words about the achievement <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rogozin\/status\/1414290326156713984\">on Twitter<\/a>. Dmitry Rogozin called the flight a \u201clandmark\u201d in terms of technology development and expanding the number of humans able to see Earth from space.<\/p>\n<p>Then Rogozin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rogozin\/status\/1414290445493018627\">went a step further<\/a>, lamenting the fact that Russia\u2019s \u201cbillionaire oligarchs\u201d spend their money on yachts and vanity projects rather than the development of space technology and increasing humanity\u2019s knowledge of space.<\/p>\n<p>This is a notable comment from Rogozin, who in the past has been critical of one particular billionaire spending his money developing space technology: SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Among other remarks, Rogozin <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/12\/russias-space-chief-is-hopping-mad-over-most-recent-us-restrictions\/\">has said<\/a> that NASA should not get too cocky about its newfound access to space in case SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon vehicle \u201cbreaks.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/12\/russias-space-chief-cannot-seem-to-get-gentle-spacex-out-of-his-mind\/\">He has also said<\/a> that SpaceX is \u201cgentle\u201d for getting to work in the balmy conditions of South Texas, while Russian engineers and technicians work in the depths of Siberia during the winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Sir Richard Branson\u2019s spaceflight this weekend, the leader of Russia\u2019s main space corporation, Roscosmos, offered some kind words about the achievement on Twitter. Dmitry Rogozin called the flight a \u201clandmark\u201d in terms of technology development and expanding the number of humans able to see Earth from space. Then Rogozin went a step further, lamenting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}