Sorry, but I don’t get your reply to me. I was answering your post that nasa “owns” him.
As you say, nasa has lost it, and with it, manned space. Musk owns that, now. So, nasa can’t cancel him as long as they need people in space.
The point of my post is that Musk is still relying on NASA for many things.
The link I gave indicated Musk was waiting for NASA to fix their spacesuit “problem”.
That is just one example.
For now NASA and Musk are still tied at the hip.
” nasa can’t cancel him as long as they need people in space.”
not exactly, although the SLS is a clustermuck.
I have some of my own designs which for example another company Blue origin is using some elements of.
besides this Russia sanctions thing is mostly dick waving. soon things will become normally flaccid and we will buy gas and rocket engines, titanium and palladium etc