“If you’re not aiming at anything, you’ll have amazing accuracy,” he says with a sincerity that immediately catches your eye.
Nik Halik is not your average Australian millionaire.
Nik Halik is the founder and CEO of the Financial Freedom Institute (FFI), Money Masters Global, and co-founder of The Intelligence Group of Companies. He is a global wealth strategist, successful businessman, and international speaker. Nik Halik became a billionaire and amassed great wealth through savvy property and stock market investments in his late 20s. His group of companies has financially educated and life-skilled more than 200,000 people around the world. But he has achieved so much more! He is also an astronaut, high-adrenaline adventurer, and bestselling author.
Among his various expeditions, he was one of the first Australians to dive five miles and land on the bow of the Titanic. He has climbed the world’s highest mountains and was one of the world’s select explorers privileged to view the curvature of the earth from the edge of space. He is Australia’s first certified and flight-qualified civilian astronaut and will also become the first Australian and private space explorer to travel into outer space and temporarily reside in Earth-orbiting’s only manned outpost, the International Space Station. .
As a child, growing up in Melbourne’s Airport West, Nik Halik read Herge’s “Destination Moon” and dreamed of walking on the moon, just like Tintin. He won’t be landing on the moon, but he will be close to achieving that dream by spending $3 million.
You have been selected as backup for the next commercial flight to the Russian International Space Station, flown by the world’s first space airline, Space Adventures.
“I’ve already been to the edge of space, 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the earth’s surface,” he said. “Now we are talking about 250 miles from the ground.”
If billionaire computer game developer Richard Garriott fails his tests to participate, Nik Halik said he would take over. Garriott is paying $30 million to lead the mission to the space station in October 2008. Being a backup also put him in a good position to lead the next flight in 2009.
“My main goal is to walk on the surface of the moon,” Halik said. “The International Space Station is close enough for now.”
I bet he will too. They don’t call it a “thrillionaire” for nothing!