SpaceX to go public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO today. The space industry may never be the same.

With the launch of SpaceX into the IPO frontier today, the space industry has its newest publicly traded juggernaut. SpaceX's initial public offering, or IPO, is going live for trading on the NASDAQ today (June 12), riding on what you could call the "Elon factor" — the high anticipation to grab stock in a company that once aimed for Mars , but now seems to be aiming at everything else, too. …