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If SpaceX is underpriced by just 10%, Ritter said, that’s billions in profit for the “people and institutions that are lucky enough to get shares allocated to them.”

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

The industry plans to spend tens of billions of dollars to build new sources of power generation, high-voltage transmission lines to carry electricity from power plants over long distances, and smaller distribution lines within cities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

The cooperation has grown "to such a large scale that it eventually provided the US billions of dollars", Dayan said.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Yet they still control technology that impacts the lives of billions of people.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

On some of the billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, life may never arise.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan