Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk

Vladimir Putin has piled praise onto Elon Musk and called him a rare “pioneer” for his ambitions to go to Mars.

The Russian president, who has already made his admiration for “courageous” Donald Trump very clear, did not hold back when talking about the president’s adviser – who also happens to be the richest man in the world.

According to Russian state-owned media outlet TASS, Putin told students at Bauman Moscow State Technical University: “You know, there’s a man – he lives in the [United] States – Musk, who, one might say, raves about Mars.

“It is not often that such people, charged with a certain idea, appear in the human population.

“It seems incredible to me today, after a while such ideas often materialise.”

Musk runs SpaceX a space technology company which claims

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