Tens of thousands of retail Australian investors are about to find out how many shares they've been allocated in the world's biggest-ever initial public offering.
SpaceX will go public on the US Nasdaq exchange on Friday, with its listing set to raise up to $US75 billion ($A106 billion) to advance Elon Musk's grandiose vision of making human life multi-planetary.
In a rare and perhaps unprecedented move, retail investors in Australia, Europe, the UK and several other countries outside the US were granted access to the red-hot initial public offering (IPO).