Nick Hodge,
Publisher
April 1, 2025
I was never big on space.
Born in 1983, I missed all the excitement of the moon race.
I was too young to be drawn in by the emotions of the Challenger disaster.
And I was too distracted by adolescence to appreciate the subsequent successes of the Columbia missions.
Plus, I was never much on science fiction, preferring instead our earthly realities, so I never got into Star Wars or Star Trek, or any of the other dystopian or utopian galaxy-based tropes for that matter.
SpaceBalls was great, though. May the Shwartz be with you.
Space: A New Investment Force
Another reason I never got into space is because we’re disconnected from it.
Only astronauts got to go. It seemed far off. And I didn’t understand the worldly benefits of expensive space travel.
Much has changed in recent years.
We now have commercial space travel. Over 30 private citizens (non-career astronauts) have gone to space in the last few years—some for minutes, some for days.
Suborbital flights with Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic take tourists ~50-100 km above Earth for a few minutes of weightlessness.
Orbital missions, like SpaceX’s Inspiration4, have sent entirely civilian crews around the Earth for multiple days—with zero professional astronauts aboard.
Not only are more people going into space, but we’re getting closer to going to infinity and beyond.
NASA launched Artemis I in 2022, and it went farther from Earth than any human-rated spacecraft in history at nearly 260,000 miles.
Artemis II (planned for 2026) will carry humans around the Moon for the first time since 1972.
Voyager 1 and 2 (launched in 1977!) are both now in interstellar space, over 15 billion miles from Earth.
It costs around $250,000 for a ticket on Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin.
And major banks like Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Citigroup are all calling for it to be bigger than a $1 trillion market by the end of this decade.
But you can’t invest in SpaceX or Blue Origin.
Not Your Father’s Space Shuttle
While sending humans into space is interesting, it’s probably not the most lucrative type of space investment.
The new space race isn’t about shuttles and the moon.
It’s about satellites.
More satellites were launched into space in the past five years than in all previous years combined... even if you count all the way back to October of 1957, when Russia first put Sputnik 1 into orbit.
These aren’t the satellites you’re thinking of. They aren’t meant to bring you wireless internet or streaming television.
These are huge satellites with mini factories and robots in them.
They are manufacturing things in space that simply cannot be made on Earth.
And the first thing they’re making is drugs.
Specifically, they are making drugs that need to be manufactured in a low-gravity environment.
These drugs will soon be the hottest commodities in hospitals and on Wall Street.
And that gets me interested — and invested — in space.
See the company we’re investing in that’s beating SpaceX to the punch.
Call it like you see it,
Nick Hodge
Publisher, Daily Profit Cycle