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| By Michael A. Robinson |
Maybe David Bowie really was on to something after all.
His critically acclaimed 1972 concept album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars” reveled in dreamy science fiction.
To add to the whole space-creature vibe, the next year he followed it with a hit single, “Life on Mars.”
At the time, it all seemed like a rock star’s extravagant fantasy.
But as the saying goes … that was then, and this is now …
Last year, NASA said it found ancient microbes on Mars that may point to a form of early life.
Furthermore, geophysicists also found evidence of a large underground reservoir of liquid water. It’s too deep to tap but may hold the possibility of some form of life there.
In other words, there’s no shortage of breakthroughs in the New Space Race and our drive to colonize Mars as part of the roughly $1 trillion space economy.
Academic and NASA researchers had already found clear evidence that there is in fact plenty of liquid water on the planet.
This is important. It means astronauts may be able to use water to build bases or other waystations where humans could live and eat.
For roughly the last decade, space experts knew of Martian polar ice caps. But how those could be tapped by humans or even robotic vehicles remained elusive.
The discovery comes as executives at SpaceX confirm they are working on developing human habitats like Martian cities, adding that humans could be living on Mars by 2060.
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A Nuclear Red Planet
And while SpaceX gets much of the media attention regarding the future of Mars, NASA is no slouch in this department.
Not by a long shot.
As you read this, the agency’s Perseverance rover is exploring Mars. It has been doing so for more than four years now, sending back some dazzling photos.
Meanwhile, the agency also operated a helicopter on Mars and says it’s working on a nuclear reactor that could eventually be used to power human developments needed to explore life on the planet, which lies 140 million miles from Earth.
To be sure, it’s all in the design phase.
But events are unfolding faster than most investors know about.
Indeed, NASA plans to use the reactor first on the Moon. It will be built to sustain human development for at least a decade before the agency seeks to develop Mars.
The 40-kilowatt reactor is supposed to make power available for running lunar habitats, rovers, backup grids and science experiments.
It will provide electricity for the equivalent of powering 33 homes on Earth. That’s a small but manageable space development.
However, this isn’t just another fascinating story about the excitement of space travel.
One of the companies behind all these plans to power Mars has worked with NASA for decades.
A Space Pioneer
The company I’m talking about, GE Aerospace (GE), may not be the company that first comes to mind. And that is precisely the point.
This newly refocused, lean aerospace leader has been a major player in space since Apollo back in the 1960s and 1970s.
GE continues to deliver the kind of NASA and Pentagon partnerships that make it a great stealth pick for the New Space Race that’s well underway.
Not only do you get one of the top commercial aircraft engine companies but also a significant space kicker.
GE is actually ramping up the work it’s doing for NASA again.
Bear in mind, the partnership has produced several technological breakthroughs. Some were so significant that they are still with us today.
For example:
The heat shields on Apollo capsules …
The space shuttles …
Even today’s space vehicles designed for re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere …
These were all originally designed and built by GE.
The Apollo 11 Moon Walk in 1969 couldn’t have been done without the radio command guidance equipment built by GE.
And today, GE is becoming an even more compelling partner as the New Space Race dawns.
That small fission reactor that could power a Moon base as I noted a moment ago?
That’s all GE!
The company is also working with Lockheed Martin (LMT) on a new Moon rover.
The plan is, once the Moon base is established, NASA would start taking all the information it gathers on building out operations on the lunar surface and then start planning for Mars.
But Mars and the Moon aren’t the only new frontiers for this 146-year-old company.
GE is already working with NASA on a new project for Venus.
Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system with surface temperatures as hot as a wood-fired pizza oven — that’s about 900 degrees Fahrenheit!
The new, novel silicon carbide GE has developed would be used in an imager.
That way, we could actually study the surface and atmosphere of the planet on site rather than depend on relaying data to engineers on Earth.
Remember, these big projects take years of R&D (and funding) before they’re even deployed.
That’s a long runway and a demonstrated interest and commitment to becoming far more involved in a variety of projects in the New Space Race.
There’s so much more to this story that I shared with my Disruptors & Dominators readers a year ago.
And our timing was perfect:
That’s a 75.4% gain since Sept. 6, 2024, when I formally recommended GE.
There’s still plenty of runway left for this stock. And you could buy it right now.
Or you can get in on the ground floor on my next picks to win the New Space Race.
In just one week from today — on Tuesday Sept. 23 — I’ll show you why I believe a new wave of undiscovered tech startups is set to crush the SpaceX monopoly …
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I’ll even share the name and ticker of one of the companies leading this charge.
To select these stocks, I used the same methodology that led to the current 75% open gain in GE.
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Best,
Michael A. Robinson
