HISTORIC MOMENT: Elon Musk, SpaceX Ring Nasdaq Opening Bell as Historic Trading Debut Begins | AF1G

Using artificial intelligence to strengthen SpaceX's space and connectivity platforms, transforming data into actionable intelligence at a global scale. The company begins trading today on Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX in what stands as the largest public offering in the history of capital markets.

As the home of innovation and the home of the innovation economy, Nasdaq is incredibly proud to be SpaceX's partner as it builds the physical and digital infrastructure of the future. Your mission is now backed by the financial engines of the public markets with access to every investor everywhere. Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team. We cannot wait to see what comes next. And now, please join me in welcoming SpaceX's president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell for her opening remarks.

Good morning, everybody. I am so excited to be here. Today, we make history again. We have a history of making history. So, I want everyone to know that we did open this morning in a rather exciting way. We launched Falcon 9 launch Starlink satellites to orbit. So, what company would do such a thing on the day that they open in the public market? SpaceX would, right? I am so proud of this team. Today, we're 24 we're not today. This year, we are 24 years old. Elon founded this company in 2002 initially to build rockets and spaceships that will take humans to Mars, the moon, and even beyond. We've done We've not quite gotten to Mars. We're almost at the moon, but let's just quickly run through the amazing things that you guys have accomplished. 2008, 6 weeks after a failure of flight 3 Falcon 1, we got the first liquid fueled rocket to orbit from a private company. Yay. By the way, I should have prefaced this with everyone said we could never get to orbit. Check. But, it was a little rocket. Then, it's everyone said, "Well, you can't get a real rocket to orbit." 2 years later, we got a real rocket to orbit, Falcon 9. Oh, well, you'll never you'll never get to the space station cuz that's what we really want to do, right? We want to take humans outside the bounds of Earth, but you'll never get astronauts to the space station. Check. We did that, too, doubters, right? Oh, you'll never fly Falcon 9 enough. You'll never get to production. 165 launches last year. Check. You'll never build a rocket large enough to take humans to the moon and Mars. We built one. We've flown it, and this year, I believe we'll get to orbit with that vehicle, and we'll recover the first the second stage. We've already recovered the first stage and reflown it. So, good good on you all for that, too. With the merger, the acquisition of XAI, we now as a group own the largest coherent gigawatt class compute on the planet, which will help us truth-seek and understand the universe. So, congratulations to all of us for that. So, we're about 22,000 strong. I'm super proud that over half of us actually bought additional stock in this opening, totaling almost a billion dollars. So, thank you for that, too. But really, the thank yous go to all of you for hanging in there, for keeping a straight spine as the doubters doubt, to achieve historic things, sometimes every day, multiple times a week. Thank you, all of you, for doing this. And I hope today is a day that you feel great about and that you're celebrating. Take a moment. Now, the Falcon recovery team can't take a moment today. But everybody else can, and I hope Falcon recovery team could take a moment a little bit later. Yeah. And also, thank you to the families, the partners, the plus ones, the children, the brothers, the sisters, the parents that have lived through long nights, that have seen launch failures, that have seen AI compute go down, that have seen kind of the trials and tribulations of this incredibly difficult business. Thank you so much for hanging in there. I know I can't do this without my incredible partner and husband, too. And I know you all have been a great source of support for all the SpaceX team, and you are a huge part of this success, too. So, thank you for that. I haven't mentioned Starlink and Starlink mobile yet. We're probably connected through that. So, incredible team to do that, connecting those that are unconnected. And I'm really excited about the future of that. In fact, as I was meeting with like literally almost a thousand people in person over the last two weeks and almost a hundred thousand through telecommunications, hopefully on Starlink. What was clear to me as I was talking about the future and they were asking questions about what we'd achieved and what we're going to achieve. What was clear to me is that we are just beginning. It might feel like a long haul, but it's going to be even more exciting going forward. So, thank you again. I want to introduce my boss of 24 years, the chairman of this incredible company, the CEO of this incredible company, and the chief designer of this incredible company, Mr. Elon Musk, who is in Starbase, Texas, and he's celebrating there with 4 or 5,000 people. Thank you so much.