ing 1% of the volume
of all telecom traffic.
But that could change
if the vision of a couple
of Silicon Valley tech
tycoons materializes.
Elon Musk is the
founder of SpaceX, a
Hawthorne, Californiabased private space
firm. Its spacecraft,
Dragon, made history
in May, 2012, when it
became the first commercial vehicle to dock
with the International
Space Station. After
retiring the Space
Shuttle four years ago,
NASA handed it the
job of ferrying cargo to
the orbiting lab. (The
9
American crew, however, so far, still hitch
rides with the Russians,
aboard Soyuz). He
also has a finger in
other bleeding-edge
pies: Tesla (maker of
high-end electric cars);
SolarCity (provider of
Dragon in orbit
Photo credit:SpaceX