Even if you don’t apply directly to buy shares, if you have retirement savings invested in shares – as almost everyone with a pension plan does – then it is very likely you will soon be a part-owner of a company, whether you like it or not, that sits at the crossroads between technology and geopolitics and, as Musk would have it, the very future of the human race.
SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet


