In the old days this would be called rushing one's fences! But I think that Musk knows something the rest of us don't: insider info perhaps? My eybrows have remained aloft as somehow this company succeeds and gains inroads where all but the established aerospace companies have been cast on the Tarpien Rock of restrictive government regulations hoovering up funds in lawyer's fees. Fees incured in desperately trying to peel away the onion layers.
Along comes Musk, a South African Israeli American (the very country - in its Apartheid guise - whose covert ally, Israel, obtained its Atomic bomb and delivery system technology,according to The Times circa 1980) no less and, thanks to USAF mentoring, slices the onion, no problem. More data onthis @ Astronautix.com/RSK
It may be sour grapes but the EAC(established Aerospace Companies) are facing indeginious competion in commercial space operations from a company which purports to charge roughly a third for launch services as they do. If Musk succeeds in gaining a similar monopoly I suspect the prices will start to skyrocket thereafter.
I was not aware that Musk was from South Africa/Israel and the news provides another piece of an expanding Jigsaw puzzle of which SPACE X is just one piece. This gets more worrying as time passes. We shall see.