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SpaceX’s IPO erased the NASA ETF’s defining edge; SpaceX now represents only 7% of holdings, with Rocket Lab leading at 11% and the fund down 29% since June.
LUNR cratered 50% and FLY dropped 40% since June while VSAT gained 14%, making individual space-stock picks nearly impossible to call.
Investors with pure SpaceX conviction should buy the stock directly; the 0.75% ETF fee only justifies itself for broad space-theme exposure.
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The Tema Space Innovators ETF (NYSE:NASA) launched at the end of March 2026 with a single genuinely differentiated feature: through a special-purpose vehicle, it offered direct exposure to SpaceX at a time when retail investors had no clean way to own the company. That advantage lasted about ten weeks. SpaceX went public in June 2026 at an IPO price of $135 per share, and the day the ticker started trading, the scarcity premium the fund had been built around effectively disappeared.
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The stock did not float peacefully. SpaceX closed below its IPO price for the first time on July 16, 2026, before climbing back above it in early August on its first earnings report, which beat on revenue. The NASA ETF itself has traded roughly in sympathy, down roughly 29% between June 1 and August 14. That leaves prospective buyers with a cleaner question than they had at launch: with the access premium gone, what is the rest of the fund actually buying you?
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