He figured he could just dump his shit all over our gorgeous plot of land without asking,” the company wrote. “We said, ‘Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll see you in court.’”

The first reason is Elon Musk, whose singular vision and hard-driving leadership propelled SpaceX through its many ups and downs. It was Musk, for example, who pushed relentlessly for SpaceX to master reusable rockets, despite industry doubters and the grumblings of his own engineers.