New York Post By Thomas Barrabi 3/11/2022
SpaceX officials couldn’t resist poking fun at Russia during the firm’s recent launch of 48 Starlink satellites into orbit — escalating a feud with Russia’s space agency that has intensified since the Kremlin began its widely condemned invasion of Ukraine.
Just seconds before Wednesday’s launch, a SpaceX director mocked Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, who said on March 3 that he would no longer allow the sale of Russian rockets to the US in retaliation for its implementation of sanctions.
“Time to let the American broomsticks fly and hear the sounds of freedom,” the SpaceX launch director said while delivering the final “go” signal before liftoff.
Rogozin drew widespread mockery from SpaceX founder Elon Musk and others after he declared on state television that he would deny access to Russia’s “world’s best rocket engines” — adding the US would have to “fly on something else like their broomsticks.”
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