Just thoughts on LMT / NOC for dividends and dividend growth / future space technology

I was noodling on dividends and also growth stocks as I feel like on a long horizon of 10-30 years, space technology is going to be a dominant sector...that lead me to think about the major defense contractors as I know they are also big into aerospace and technology which I feel dovetail into future space technology and exploration. So I was looking at LMT and NOC because it feels like they may have good future growth and are dividend payers....NOC offers a lower dividend yield of around 2% but