Nik Halik – Australian “Thrillionaire”

“If you don’t aim at anything, you’ll have amazing accuracy,” he says with a sincerity that immediately draws attention.

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 multi-millionaire and amassed great wealth through smart investments in property and the stock market in his late 20s. His group of companies has financially educated and empowered more than 200,000 people worldwide. But he has achieved much more! He’s 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 highest mountains in the world 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 qualified-to-fly civilian astronaut and will also become the first private Australian space explorer to travel to outer space and temporarily reside on Earth’s only manned outpost in orbit, 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 land on the moon, but he’ll be close to achieving that dream by spending $3 million.

It has been selected as backup for the next commercial flight to the Russian International Space Station, run by the world’s first space airline, Space Adventures.

“I have already been to the edge of space, 20 miles (32 kilometers) from the surface of the earth,” he said. “Now we are talking about 250 miles from the earth.”

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 him a “thrillionaire” for nothing!