Elon Musk called the family of the ancestor of astronautics Sergey Korolev and invited them to the next launch of the Crew Dragon ship

The founder of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that he had a chatter with the grandson of the ancestor of astronautics, academician Sergei Korolev.

The fact that he called the family of the Soviet designer, Musk wrote on his Twitter . He did not give the details of the conversation. “I talked with the Queen's family today. He was one of the best,” the businessman said, writing at the end the surname Korolev in Russian. True, he wrote the name of the academician in two versions - "Korolov/Korolev." Musk has recently demonstrated knowledge in the Russian language. He may be owed to his girlfriend, singer Grains, who, although he was born in Canada, is a Ukrainian line Ukrainian and sometimes sings in Russian.

The grandson of the domestic academician and missile builder Sergei Korolev Andrei confirmed that Musk really called his family. Andrei Korolev said that his family wrote a mask after the successful launch of the SPACEX Crew Dragon ship to the orbit. Some time after that, the businessman secretary contacted them and offered to chat with the entrepreneur from the video, the Zvezda channel reports.

“We talked for 20 minutes, in communication he is a pleasant, very cheerful, very positive person, we laughed a lot. He treats the memory of my grandfather with great respect, he considers him one of the greatest engineers and outstanding people of his time,” said the grandson of the queen.

Family members Korolev invited the American inventor to Moscow to "show historical, space places, which is certainly interesting to him." Musk, in turn, invited them to see the SpaceX plants and visit one of the following launches as soon as the air traffic was open.

I spoke with korolev's family Today.
He Was One of the Very Best.
King / Korolev.

- Elon Musk (@lonmusk) July 10, 2020