Having already joined the half-trillion market cap club, Apple headed higher today as the broader market fell.

[UPDATE: Late Monday, the flight was deemed a success, but Atea-1 had yet to be located after splash-down. The search had been expected to take a couple of days. If all goes well, technical director Peter Beck said he hopes for Rocket Lab to stage its first commercial launch "early in the New Year"]

Just (cough) half a century after it began, New Zealand has entered the space race.