The <a href=" Space Innovators ETF (NASA) managed to land, entirely by accident, one of the most fortuitous launch windows for a thematic ETF, coinciding with the Artemis II mission and renewed popular interest in the space program.

So why is NASA launching fewer telescopes and planetary science missions than it did a quarter-century ago? The answer is complex. It is not necessarily the money. The space agency’s science budget this year is $7.