{"id":4064,"date":"2025-04-16T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4064"},"modified":"2025-04-16T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T21:03:40","slug":"elon-musk-praised-by-putin-likened-to-iconic-soviet-engineer-korolev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk praised by Putin, likened to iconic Soviet engineer\u00a0Korolev"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came as Russia and the United States forged closer ties under President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, of which billionaire SpaceX founder Musk is a key figure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there\u2019s a man \u2013 he lives in the States \u2013 Musk, who, you could say, raves about Mars,\u201d Putin told students on a visit to Bauman University, a Moscow college that specialises in science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are the kind of people who don\u2019t often appear in the human population, charged-up with a certain idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it seems incredible even today, such ideas often come to fruition after a while. Just like the ideas of Korolev, our pioneers, came about in due time,\u201d Putin added.<\/p>\n<p>Korolev is considered the father of the Soviet space programme, developing the first satellite Sputnik as well as Vostok 1, which carried first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the world\u2019s richest man and Trump\u2019s most powerful advisor, is the head of SpaceX \u2013 a US company that launches rockets for NASA and owns the Starlink satellite internet network.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been a frequent critic of Ukraine, which is currently battling a three-year Russian offensive.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month of wanting a \u201cforever war\u201d, and in February said Kyiv had gone \u201ctoo far\u201d in the conflict.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Elon Musk on Wednesday, telling university students he was a pioneer comparable to legendary Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev. The comments came as Russia and the United States forged closer ties under President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, of which billionaire SpaceX founder Musk is a key figure. \u201cYou know, there\u2019s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}