Why are Russian billionaires not participating in the universe?

Travel in space is a proof of the civilization of upstream businesses. Why are Russian billionaires not interested in this playground?

The regular space device ' Saiuz ' landed in the Kazan prairies last Wednesday, April 21. Among the crew members were Charles Simonyi, an American citizen, who is now the fifth tourist to fly into space.

Despite being the founder of the above-mentioned tourism category, Russia, as the only travel coordinator in the space, cannot yet solidify its position in the market. World space tourism service.

However, the strange thing is that on the basis of the achievements, so far in Russia has not been able to find a person who really wants to be ' cosmonaut ' (foreign case) the only one is the director of Mirax Group - Sergei Polonski, but he is not allowed to fly for medical reasons.

Even announcing the commotion of Russia's richest man, billionaire Roman Abramovic on his willingness to pay $ 300 million to be able to fly into space, does not seem to change the situation. On the contrary, the situation becomes more serious.

Roman Abramovic is willing to spend millions of dollars on the test flight to the moon. Of course, if within the next five years Americans do not conduct flights to the moon, Roman Abramovic's announcement may be considered as an intended version: during that time, like the immortal Khogia Nasregin said: either the donkey will die, or .

Billionaire Roman Abramovic will spend $ 300 million to fly into space? (Photo: VNN)

The situation seems even more unusual if the statistics of numbers. According to the report of ' Finance ', there are now more than 50 billionaires across Russia. But in fact there is nothing unusual here.

Russian and Western residents have different cultures. Typically, British billionaire Richard Breson, who financed the establishment of flying airship records (he has also repeatedly participated in these flights himself), canoes and planes, is currently financial support for the construction of the ship ' Special ship Tu ' for orbit tourism.

The key to understanding the second reason, why in Western countries, there are many people among the wealthy people who want to become tourists of such space flights, while in fact in The number of Russians, who could not find the biography of anyone who ever flew into space as a traveler of this type.

They all use their assets in the field of high knowledge activities. Or study high-tech control methods in business (Denis Tito), or study information technology, electronics, communications and computing (Mark Shatluort, Grigori Olsen, Anus Azari, Charles Simonyi). Recently Bill Gate, the founder and leader of Microsoft Corporation, also stormed the plan to ' follow ' Charles Simonyi.

In Russia there are many similar situations (after rare exceptions) that have been carried out. In the field of exploiting and processing forest products useful, or in better cases - construction sites. First of all, these businesses often pay attention to profitability, not attention to the problem of expanding the horizon of human knowledge.

Finally, the third reason is that in Russia there are many cases of illegal profit taking, the simple reason is that the owners of these companies are afraid to disclose their financial resources to avoid Unpleasant explanations of the cause of that money in tax inspections or in the prosecutor's office.

Of course, space travel, first of all the ' game ' of the rich. But those who can allow themselves to participate in this game need not only have a huge fortune but also have a desire and desire to expand their knowledge. In Russia, the emergence of such elite businesses will become one of the proofs to show that large businesses are not only willing to contribute to growth in the mining sector but also to close contribute to the development of high technical potential of the country.

Khuong Trang