I think the technology Musk will need (whether he knows it or not) is robot/mechanized prepping on the Moon or Mars by creating fully stocked underground habitats for humans before sending any folks there.
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His plans for years now, if you watch any of the SpaceX videos, are to set up the lunar colony remotely with everything it needs to be self-sufficient **before** people arrive. Same for Mars. 100% of everything needed.
Good to hear—gives him time to decouple from NASA—and then he can make it happen.