Elon Musk talked to family members of Soviet engineer and designer Sergei Korolev. He told about it on his microblogging Twitter.

The Tesla CEO called Korolev "one of the best" academics.

As Andrei Korolev, the grandson of the Soviet engineer, later shared, Elon Musk invited his family to visit SpaceX factories and one of the next launches once air service resumes. The Queens also invited the American businessman for a visit.

According to Andrei Korolev, the conversation lasted 20 minutes. He called Musk "a pleasant, very funny and positive person," who has great respect for the memory of the Soviet academic and considers him "one of the greatest engineers and outstanding people of his time.

Later, Roscosmos also reacted to the American entrepreneur's tweet, calling Korolev "one of the best."

Sergei Korolev is a Soviet scientist and designer in the field of space and rocket structure. He was also the chief designer of the first launch vehicles and manned spacecraft. In addition, he founded practical cosmonautics.

He was born in the middle of January 1907.

Recall, it was reported the other day that the price of the base configuration of the electric SUV Model Y was reduced to $50 thousand. As media reported, Tesla decided not to produce a less expensive version, which was to come out soon. As the head of the company Ilon Musk clarified, this is due to insufficient range.

Over the past few years, Tesla has repeatedly changed the bundling of its own vehicles in the entire range of models. The company decided to no longer apply a direct indication of the charging capacity of batteries, choosing instead to designate the range.

Last spring, when the automaker launched the Model Y, Tesla said that there would be four different models of off-road electric car.

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