The moment that Wall Street had anticipated all year arrived on Friday as SpaceX, the AI and aerospace company controlled by Elon Musk, began trading publicly on the Nasdaq in the largest initial public offering (IPO) in the history of financial markets and making the polarising entrepreneur the world's first trillionaire.
In a speech before the New York session opened for trading, Musk stated that SpaceX's goal is to "take the fiction out of science fiction."
