I think that the big play with SpaceX is that it will open up tons of avenues of that we haven't even thought about. Going back to his keynote a few days ago he

I think that the big play with SpaceX is that it will open up tons of avenues of that we haven't even thought about. Going back to his keynote a few days ago he is assessing multiple parts of space travel and trying to bring costs down orders of magnitude - and if they are the only group that can do it at those costs, then it seems like it will completely change what is possible to do in space.