Wall Street buckles up for SpaceX liftoff, hoping for a glitch-free ride

While Wall Street executives host splashy client events and deck out their foyers to promote the rocket maker, those in key roles at exchanges, market makers, investment firms and brokerages are more concerned with ensuring a smooth trading kick-off. In a sign of brokerages' long memories, one executive at a Wall Street firm working on the IPO who requested anonymity even mentioned lingering scar tissue from the Facebook debut.