>What specific technologies or patents do they own that will cause other companies to "crawl" to them? I can't think of an exact patent they have for rockets,

>What specific technologies or patents do they own that will cause other companies to "crawl" to them? I can't think of an exact patent they have for rockets, but NASA came walking (not crawling by any means) to SpaceX with a multi-billion-dollar contract. Musk will win.