Here's some different resources that might help you tap into the entrepreneurial space community as well as help get you bootstrap, seed funding for your space

Here's some different resources that might help you tap into the entrepreneurial space community as well as help get you bootstrap, seed funding for your space business: - The New Space Conference (https://spacefrontier.org/newspace2019/ https://spacefrontier.org/newspace2019/), which alternates between being based in the Bay Area and Seattle. This conference is a great, accessible way to find out what is going on with startup companies attempting to do interesting things in space. - The NASA Ames Space Portal (https://www.nasa.gov/ames/partnerships/spaceportal https://www.nasa.gov/ames/partnerships/spaceportal) - A group based at NASA Ames field center in Mountain View that pursues public/private partnerships between NASA and the private sector. - NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) (https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/ https://frontierdevelopmentlab.org/) - A two month "research sprint" that takes place in the summer time in Mountain View, bridging machine learning and space science & exploration, as well as the public and private sectors. - NASA SBIR grants (https://sbir.nasa.gov/ https://sbir.nasa.gov/) - a great program that helps seed small businesses and solo inventors with seed grants for promising entrepreneurial programs that might help NASA and the general space economy - NASA NSPIRES (https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/ https://nspires.nasaprs.com/external/) - NASA portal page to find out calls for contributors, that also have funding, that can help you get plugged into the space community and also get seed funding. - NASA Centennial Challenges (https://www.nasa.gov/open/centennial-challenges.html https://www.nasa.gov/open/centennial-challenges.html) - X-Prize like competitions that will pay out if you meet their guidelines and win in a particular area, like the Regolith Excavation Challenge which has been held several times, where the team who can best move simulated lunar soil in an automated way wins. The last winning team got 500k, for example, which is a nice purse to help bootstrap a space venture. - NASA Advanced Innovative Concepts (NIAC) (https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/index.html) - Award program that funds very far-reaching, innovative space programs. These are always incredibly cool programs; here's the awarded NIAC grants for 2019 for example (https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-18-potentially-revolutionary-space-tech-concepts https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-invests-in-18-potent...) - Luxembourg Space Agency (https://space-agency.public.lu/en.html https://space-agency.public.lu/en.html) - Luxembourg is a leader in private, mining oriented operations in space, and acts as an angel and seed investor in many, small early entrepreneurial space startups If you have more questions feel free to reach out to me on twitter at @bradneuberg