# About General Galactic ## Building a railroad to Mars. In Kim Stanley Robinson's 1992 novel _Red Mars_, shortly after the first 100 colonists land on the red planet, they begin building the first permanent human settlement off of the Earth in over a billion years. Among the first pieces of extraterrestrial infrastructure is a propellant generation machine supplied by _General Electric_. As we enter the Second Space Age, science fiction stories like this are serving as a template for our reality. With access to orbit now commoditized, we can begin building real orbital infrastructure. Our vision for the future at _General Galactic_ is to build the thru-line between spacecraft mobility, orbital infrastructure, and in-situ resource utilization. We will make it easy and cheap to move beyond Earth. We will create a railroad to Mars. And we will build the infrastructure that enable human expansion across the solar system. Esse Quam Videri. ### Halen Mattison CEO & Co-Founder Led by alumni from transformative space companies .jpg) **Halen Mattison** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hgm/) .jpg) **Luke Neise** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-neise/) .jpg) **Michael Adeyi** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-adeyi/) .jpg) **George Kaldas** [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgekaldas/) Backed by leading hard-tech investors .png) ### Latest Updates **[General Galactic Aims to Become the Galaxy's Energy and Logistics Company](https://spacenews.com/general-galactic-aims-to-become-the-galaxys-energy-logistics-company/)** News 05.03.2026 .png) **[This Startup Thinks It Can Make Rocket Fuel From Water. Stop Laughing](https://www.wired.com/story/general-galactic-water-rocket-fuel-test/)** News 09.02.2026 **[Railroad to Mars: Payload Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/1o87GLNbNua1xMuxhC5LXw?si=a3b628568e9a4bad)** Insight 04.12.2025 Go to orbit with General Galactic.