Don’t you hate when your house is a mess?
I know that’s a weird way to start a financial conversation, but if you bear with me – I promise, there’s a point.
Now, back to the mess. We always try to keep our personal space clean (well, most of us) – and that’s because it’s hard to operate, to move around the house, to find things…
So we try to keep some semblance of order and cleanliness, in order to keep our household as smooth a running machine as we can.
But what if we couldn’t clean our mess?
What if our mess got so out of control that even constant cleaning barely made a dent in the overall picture?
For lack of a better term – we’d be screwed.
Now, how about we expand that same scenario to something bigger? No, I’m not talking about our environment or the oceans – even though we’re dirtying them up too…
No, I’m talking about outer space.
Well, low orbit to be exact.
Did you know that just outside of our atmosphere – where the satellites and space shuttles dwell – there is an extremely dense layer of space junk that is orbiting the earth at 18,000 miles an hour.
It’s actually pretty amazing to see. Well…
Amazing and scary.
The inherent problem with all this space junk floating around is the fact that it makes space exploration so much more difficult than most people can imagine.
Why? Think about it – do you know the kind of damage a wrench or a bolt traveling at 18,000 miles an hour could do to a space vehicle?
A nut could pierce the hull of ship as easily as a bullet would pierce a Styrofoam cup…
Which is one of the reasons that the burgeoning space industry still has a few hurtles to overcome.
Companies like Elon Musk’s Space X and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin are making huge strides by being able to both launch and land rockets – the former of which has recently resupplied the International Space Station.
We will never know just how hard it is to navigate through an almost literal mine field of debris that could destroy any ship that gets in the way of it’s 18,000 mph orbit.
The Space X rocket is a whopping $60 million ship…
Can you imagine the cost of the upkeep of these ships if they get whacked every time they go into space? Seriously… it’s a crap shoot of WHEN one of these ships is going to get dinged – not IF.
So, that alone may be what keeps the new private space industry growth slower than we’d like…
But it doesn’t mean it will always be this way.
Just last year, Japan sent up a crew whose sole mission was to clean up some of the floating debris…
While they were able to get a few pieces out of the way – the mission wasn’t seen as a success – as the level of difficulty of catching anything moving at over 23 times the speed of sound is extremely high.
But – that doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution. A way to clear our pathway to the stars may be as easy as magnets attached to poles –who knows– I’m no aerospace engineer…
My job is simple. Find stocks that have the potential to make my subscribers a lot of money…
And there are PLENTY of investment opportunities in the all-but-untapped space industry that could be HUGE for people like us.
I’ve been looking into this market for a couple of years now and I have a feeling that it could be very viable in the very near future – so you can bet dollars to donuts that I will be revealing any potential winners to my GorillaTrades subscibers as soon as I discover one that is ready to pop.
I’d love to have you with us if that happens – so please, consider becoming a subscriber…
Either way, it’s not a bad time to take a look at this infant industry – it could pay off HUGE down the road!
“After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’” – William S. Burroughs
