The Russian space agency joked on Sunday about the " hysteria " manifested by Donald Trump after the successful launch of the SpaceX rocket on Saturday at Cape Canaveral, while welcoming that it is no longer the only one able to send men into the 'space.
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The American president, who attended the takeoff of the rocket developed by a private company, directed by the businessman Elon Musk, showed an overflowing enthusiasm after the first manned flight launched by Nasa since 2011. " This power, this technology is incredible, "said Donald Trump in particular, promising that Americans would soon set foot on Mars and that the United States would soon have" the most extraordinary weapons ever imagined ".
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NASA has depended since 2011 on the Russian space agency Roscosmos to send astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). " We have trouble understanding the hysteria triggered by the successful launch of the Crew Dragon capsule ," Roscosmos spokesman Vladimir Oustimenko reacted on Twitter. " What should have happened a long time ago has happened, " he added, alluding to a previous failure of SpaceX in 2014, after which the boss of the Russian space agency, Dmitri Rogozin, had suggested in the United States to buy a trampoline. " The trampoline works, " replied Elon Musk during a press conference alongside the boss of Nasa.