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Space IndustrySpaceX is being fast-tracked into major stock indexes that sit inside retirement accounts and passive funds — meaning millions of ordinary investors may soon own a slice of Elon Musk’s rocket company without ever choosing the stock directly, and perhaps without realizing it. SpaceX began trading on the Nasdaq on Friday 12 June under the ticker SPCX, in what was, by the size of the raise, the largest initial public offering on record. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

Space IndustryIn a single afternoon on the Nasdaq, SpaceX did not just make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire — on paper it also lifted an estimated 4,400 current and former employees into millionaires, with around 400 sitting on stakes worth more than 100 million dollars. SpaceX's listing on the Nasdaq on Friday made Elon Musk the first person worth $1 trillion on paper. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

Mind & MeaningA trained dog can detect a single drop of blood diluted in 20 Olympic-sized swimming pools — a sensitivity so extreme that dogs can pick up the molecular traces of cancer in a person's breath — and a 2024 study found them correctly identifying breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancer with roughly 94 percent accuracy Somewhere in a quiet research facility outside Tel Aviv, a Labrador retriever named Mars is being asked to do something a $100,000… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

Mind & MeaningWe often credit perks and pay for engagement at work, but one analysis found something else mattered more — meeting workers' needs for autonomy, competence and connection, with well-being rising as stress and burnout fell It may come as no suprise to you that workplace engagement is in decline. According to Gallup's State of the Global Workplace 2026 report… By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026

Space IndustryIt was not Elon Musk but Gwynne Shotwell, the engineer who has turned his ambitions into operating reality since becoming SpaceX's president in 2008, who helped ring the Nasdaq bell on Friday — the moment a company built on reusable rockets and satellite internet became, on paper, worth more than two trillion dollars. When SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq on Friday, Elon Musk appeared on a video feed from Starbase in Texas, projected into the exchange's headquarters. By Space Daily Editorial Team · Jun 13, 2026