Michael Thompson

I don't know whether space was ever a big kind of thing for investors, but it's certainly dominating the space now.

Space.

There you go.

Nice.

VanEck's Space Innovators Exchange Traded Fund has risen more than 220% in the last year.

BetaShares next month is launching its own space ETF.

That'll be the first of its kind for the ASX.

And it's really because...

Space is no longer just the domain of governments, but it's also open to commercial companies that are doing everything from launching rockets and building satellite networks and just broadly mapping the Earth from orbit.

Everything involves space these days.

I have, yes.

Did you like it?

I enjoyed the movie.

I think because I had read the book, so I knew what I was expecting.

I know that you differed slightly, right?

Look, I'll tell you what, Sean, I actually picked this about three years ago, remember, and I did it on the weekend edition when I declared that, I mean, admittedly, I think I said 2024 was going to be the year that we start caring more about what's in the sky and looking up to the heavens.

But I think that was also because it'd been a spate of space junk incidents.

You do this every year, though.

You say that every year.

It's actually the way you do it.