We Help You Prove It.
From concept to certified component, our NASA-trained engineers bring additive manufacturing expertise that most firms spend decades trying to build.
Your Idea Has
Engineering Potential.
Photo Credit: NASA
Most Engineering Ideas Never Make It Past the Drawing Board.
Not because they aren't good, but because the gap between a promising concept and a production-ready component is wider than most teams expect.
If you've experienced any of these, you're not alone:
Your design team understands traditional manufacturing, but additive processes are a different language entirely
You've invested in AM equipment but aren't seeing the ROI you expected
Prototypes look promising, but scaling to production keeps hitting walls
You need credible expertise for a proposal, contract, or investment pitch, not just a vendor
Your organization wants to adopt AM but doesn't know where to start
The cost of that gap isn't just time. It's missed contracts, failed components, and ideas that quietly disappear.
We've Worked Where the Stakes Were Non-Negotiable.
Travis Davis spent six years at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center designing and testing liquid propulsion systems, the components that literally launch things into space. He worked daily with metal, polymer, and resin additive manufacturing in environments where a material failure wasn't an inconvenience. It was a mission loss.
Amanda Davis worked as a Certified Operations Controller for the International Space Station at NASA's Payload Operations Integration Center, where she oversaw biotechnology experiments operating in low-Earth orbit. When something didn't work on the ISS, there was no pause button.
What we built at NASA, the discipline, the design methodology, the real-world material knowledge, is exactly what most engineering teams are trying to acquire.
We founded The Additive Space to make that expertise accessible: to startups with breakthrough ideas, to established companies navigating the transition to additive, and to organizations that need a trusted technical partner, not just a consultant.
The gap between your idea and a working component shouldn't cost you years. We’ve done the heavy lifting, so you don't have to.
01 — DESIGN
We start where you are. Whether you have napkin sketches or CAD files, we facilitate structured ideation sessions that capture every constraint, requirement, and ambition, then organize them into an engineering roadmap your team can actually execute.
What You Get: A clear path from concept to component. No wasted iterations.
02 — DIMENSION
Engineering requires precision. We translate your qualitative goals, lighter, stronger, faster to market, into quantifiable design specifications. Material selection, process parameters, and tolerances: every variable gets defined before fabrication begins.
What You Get: Designs that survive contact with reality and pass review.
03 — DEVELOP
We build. Through controlled, iterative fabrication using additive manufacturing processes, we produce real components and validate them against your requirements. We don't stop at prototype; we help you get to production.
What You Get: A validated, manufacturable component, and the documentation to prove it.
Consultation
30 MINUTES. ONE CLEAR NEXT STEP.
Whether you're stuck on a technical challenge, a go-to-market question, or need a credible engineering perspective on a business decision, we work through it directly. No pitch, no retainer required to start.
Speaking
BRING NASA-CALIBER ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE TO YOUR EVENT.
We speak on additive manufacturing, aerospace innovation, and engineering entrepreneurship at conferences, corporate events, and universities, virtually and in person.
Courses
LEARN AM FROM ENGINEERS WHO’VE USED IT IN SPACE.
Our courses cover additive manufacturing fundamentals, design for AM, and material selection, built from real engineering experience at NASA, not a textbook. Available for individuals, corporate teams, and university programs.
Ready to Close the Gap Between Concept and Component?
Whether you're early in ideation or stuck at scale, a 30-minute strategy call is where it starts. We'll identify exactly where your biggest engineering or business bottleneck is, and tell you plainly what it takes to solve it.