The goal of the industry should be to recreate the conditions for the survival of people on Earth and the preservation of the planet, said the Director General of Roscosmos
MOSCOW, August 13. /TASS/. Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos, believes that cosmonautics should be aimed at recreating the conditions for the survival of people on Earth.
"My opinion: cosmonautics is a great achievement of mankind. It should be aimed not at finding the possibility of escape from our planet of separately selected billionaires, but at recreating the conditions for the survival of people on Earth, at preserving our native planet despite its rampant exploitation by barbaric capitalism," Rogozin wrote on his Facebook page.
Also, the goal of cosmonautics should be to ensure the connectivity of world cultures, the development of communications between continents and peoples, humanity's understanding of its connectivity and a single destiny, " the head of Roscosmos is convinced.
This is how Rogozin reacted to the opinion of the French astrophysicist Louis d’Endercourt, who noted that the idea of Elon Musk about the imminent colonization of Mars has no scientific basis, since the Red Planet is completely uninhabitable, writes Le Monde.
Earlier, Elon Musk expressed the opinion that SpaceX will begin to land Starship ships on Mars until 2030. At the same time, the main problem, as the entrepreneur made it clear, is not in delivering people to the planet, but in creating a self-sufficient base on it. Musk has previously noted the difficulty of building a permanent base for human habitation on Mars and considered this task as a deterrent to the development of the planet. Nevertheless, he considered the flights to it possible in six years or even four years.
