By Becky Peterson
Nasdaq has kept it simple for the SpaceX IPO. While the exchange gets plenty of traffic from tourists in Time Square, there wasn't any signage or big display to call attention to the day's big event. Morgan Stanley, whose headquarters are down the street, made up for it with a large billboard image of Mars and a countdown for "SPCX preparing for liftoff."
Around 7:30 am, some SpaceX executives scurried into the exchange through a side door while a small huddle of photographers and video crews set up in hopes of capturing footage of familiar faces.
There was also no sign of the large blow-up effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk that occupied Time Square on Thursday afternoon. That sculpture was part of a protest and highlighted issues that SpaceX's Grok has had around generating illicit images.
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