 While traditional airlines continue to recover following the decrease in travel demand caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, space startups like Jeff Bezos Blue Origin, Elon Musks SpaceX and Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. SPCE , Financial, who are striving to get ahead in taking ordinary citizens to the final frontier, and rising geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and the Middle East, Asia and even France have increasingly shifted investors focus to the aerospace and defense sector. 