Siberian school-leaver launches pizza into space and chats with Elon Musk

Many people first heard about ToSky on June 2, 2019, when the company launched a toy Lada into space with a figure of Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos), inside. To do so, the startup from Tomsk (3,000 east of Moscow) used an aerostat, basically a high-altitude balloon.

But Nikita Cheban, ToSky’s 20-year-old founder, had in fact launched his first spacecraft two years previously, immediately after graduating from high school in 2017.

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