He must work for Elon Musk then? ... I do know at one time anyway, Mr. Musk did indeed start that company, "Space X". Tesla is having a hard time right now, but who knows their future? .. ;) everything could turn in an instant. As far as Space X, it seems they have done quite a bit already.
FALCON 9 LAUNCHES TWO ALL-ELECTRIC COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES
On March 1, 2015, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket delivered the ABS 3A and EUTELSAT 115 West B all-electric satellites to a supersynchronous transfer orbit.
More is coming back to me now ... Obama is the one! . .He's the one who cut was it 'nasa'? ( I think ) ... and said ,,,, YES! Private industry can indeed work for the government. not meaning in the classical way but in the sense that at One time ... WE thought and believed that ONLY OUR government could do rockets to space etc..then Obama said No .. go do it! We can't afford it anymore .. something like that .. we posted about this on this board ... ;)