I don't think you are correct. Money (and sometimes good ideas) talks in this world, and he has plenty of it to gain him and is company access to a lot of the things you're talking about. Access to space is not that difficult - plenty of countries and companies have access to space. Being part of some "club" is not necessary to gain access to it.

The world is too large and complicated with too many people and ideas in it that are all vying for different things to be as tightly controlled by some club like you are talking about. The people who you think are in control are not friends, and do not have positive outlooks on humanity as a whole. They are not fans of humanity - Elon Musk is, and really wants humanity to have a future. A future as a space-faring civilization, one that goes to Mars and beyond. Break from your narrow view of the world, it's much more complicated than "the club".