Everything about the SpaceX IPO was befitting of Elon Musk’s original goal. From the get-go, roughly 25 years ago, he wanted superlatives. He wanted to capture attention, to fuel imaginations and, in turn, to create public support—excitement—for space travel. undefined undefined This week, he got superlatives: the world’s biggest IPO. Ever. Tens of billions of dollars to fund his ambitions to put giant rocket ships into space, build out AI data centers in orbit and one day, just maybe, put a city on Mars with 1 million people. And to think, his earlier idea was so much smaller. To reignite waning interest in…

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