Anatoly Chubais may fly into space

The head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, did not rule out that he will go on a space journey as part of cooperation with the Virgin Group, reports Ekho Moskvy .

Chubais himself stated this at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow.

In turn, the founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, said that Anatoly Chubais only needs to say “yes” to fly.

Earlier it became known that Rusnano's subsidiary Rusnano Capital AG, Virgin Group and the Virgin Green Fund investment fund created a fund to support companies involved in optimizing energy consumption and working in the field of renewable energy . The Virgin Galactic company, owned by the Virgin Group, is going to provide everyone with the opportunity to make a suborbital flight to an altitude of about 100 km, which, according to US aviation regulations, is considered the boundary of space. Travel will be carried out on the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft and WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft, developed by Scaled Composites.