Tesla News: Russia Sends Toy Car Into Space To Poke Fun At Elon Musk
June 16, 2019
A team of scientists from a Russian university announced that they had sent a toy car into space Friday, in order to make fun of Elon Musk, who launched a red Tesla sports car into space in 2018.
The scientists from Tomsk State University in the Russian region of Siberia, shared a YouTube video where a red Zhiguli toy car was sent into the cosmos on June 1 with a small effigy of Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia’s space flight program Roscomos. This is a throwback to a white mannequin named “Starman” that was put inside the red Tesla that launched in February 2018.