What happens when brilliant minds, bold ideas, and real NASA technology collide? Down to Earth, Ready to Launch proved just how powerful that mix can be.

This two-day experience wasn’t just another conference — it was a front-row seat to innovation, entrepreneurship, and the future of commercial space tech.

NASA Tech, Without the Rocket Science

We took high-level, patented NASA technologies — the kind built for space, flight, and planetary science — and made them accessible to founders, thinkers, and builders right here on Earth.

Participants got an inside look at tools and inventions straight from NASA’s labs — the kind of stuff that’s usually locked behind government walls — and brainstormed how to launch it into the market. Think: advanced materials, imaging tools, AI applications, biomedical breakthroughs, and clean energy tech. All real. All ready for business.

Real Access. Real Opportunity.

This wasn’t about theory. It was about action.

  • Entrepreneurs teamed up with NASA inventors to workshop real commercialization ideas

  • Attendees got behind-the-scenes access to NASA Langley — an active federal research center

  • NASA leadership shared their vision for public-private innovation and how startups can plug in

  • Founders pitched ideas with potential to license NASA tech and turn it into the next big thing

No fluff. No panels for panels’ sake. Just raw tech, direct access, and big ambition.

Why It Mattered

This event showed what’s possible when we stop thinking of NASA as just rockets and astronauts — and start seeing it as the most underutilized R&D lab for American entrepreneurship.

It was proof that you don’t need a PhD or a space badge to build a company around space-age tech. You just need the vision — and a chance to plug in.