Bringing the value of space home to Earth.
In space or just getting close, we get you to the people who decide.
Bringing the value of space home to Earth.
“…there are no borders or boundaries that you can see.”
Bringing the value of space home to Earth.
“…there are no borders or boundaries that you can see.”
In space or just getting close, we get you to the people who decide.
Your mission control
Where decisions are made
Nearly 80 governments now run space agencies. Every one has a decision map, and it is rarely the org chart.
In the business of space, the published structure is rarely the decision map.
With one Gulf partner, the yes did not come from the head of the agency or the program director. It came from a manager in a neighboring agency.
Before you commit capital in the business of space, find out who actually decides. You may not need us to do that. But do it before the money moves.
Not sure who decides? Talk with us.
We map who decides, who influences, and who can stop it, and tell you honestly how much of that map we can reach.
Ninety minutes. No fee. You talk with an Operating Partner.
Consulting and advising for the business of space. We give founders, companies, investors, and governments access and opportunity. Then we connect the perspectives that matter, so everyone moves forward together.
Anyone with something worth pursuing, who is ready to act, and has no clear path to the people who can say yes.
Space creates value in two directions. Some of it stays in orbit: launch, stations, satellites. Much of it comes home: the data a farmer uses, the signal a ship depends on, the flood image that settles an insurance claim. That is the business of space.
Seeing the opportunity is the easy part. Reaching the people who can say yes is the hard part. That is where we come in.
The common thread is never what you have. It is what stands between you and the people who can act on it with you.
What you bring can take almost any form.
Does this sound like you?
Request a sessionNinety minutes. No fee. You talk with an Operating Partner.
Looking for Inter Astra Institute or the Business of Space Association? See the Business of Space Ecosystem.
Open the door. Align the room.
Every engagement starts with a complimentary ninety-minute mapping session. From there, we work three ways.
Six weeks on one decision.
Six weeks on one decision. We map who decides, put the right advisors against that map, and introduce you to the people who can act on it.
This is where the names come in. Putting a name against your map means an advisor puts their own reputation on the line for you, so we do it only once you ask.
Best when you face one major decision with a clock on it.
An Operating Partner on call.
An Operating Partner on call as your situation changes. We test decisions with you before you commit, read the spacescape as it moves, and bring in advisors when a moment calls for them. Think of it like having a doctor on call.
Best when the decisions keep coming and you want us in the room for each one.
A defined answer, at one price.
A fixed scope and a defined deliverable: a study, an assessment, or a program design, built by a task organized, advisor-led team. One price, agreed before work starts, based on what the answer is worth to you, not the hours it takes.
For government clients, this is a fixed-price type agreement. Government contracting details
Best when you need a defined answer you can put on the record.
We open doors and we help you decide. We do not lobby, we do not advocate for clients before government officials, and we do not promise that any particular person takes a meeting. You make your own case.
Execution belongs to the institutions built and authorized to deliver it. We stay in our lane.
Ninety minutes. No fee. You talk with an Operating Partner.
“We need to work together to accomplish the biggest things humanity has ever done.”
Astronauts and agency leaders. Generals, physicians, lawyers, investors, and founders. We build task organized, advisor-led teams around the problem in front of you.
Dr. Jeanette Epps
NASA Astronaut. Executive Vice President, Space Exploration
Orbital Astronaut
LinkedIn profile for Dr. Jeanette EppsRelationships built over decades and held together by loyalty. That is why the calls get returned.
Health, security, finance, policy, or the mission itself. Someone here has lived it or solved it.
Access without expertise wastes everyone’s time. Expertise without access is a report nobody acts on. We bring both, and we tell you what we think.
The Honorable
Charles Bolden
NASA Astronaut. Founder, CEO Emeritus, and Iconaut Advisor. Former NASA Administrator. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2006. National Aviation Hall of Fame, 2017. Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate, 2018.
Orbital Astronaut
LinkedIn profile for Charles BoldenDr. Kelly Bolden
Plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Howard University faculty.
LinkedIn profile for Dr. Kelly BoldenMikaley Bolden
Cognitive neuroscience PhD student and Patrick Healy Fellow, Georgetown University
LinkedIn profile for Mikaley BoldenJoanie Higginbotham
NASA Astronaut. NASA engineer.
Orbital Astronaut
LinkedIn profile for Joanie HigginbothamFewer than 800 people have orbited the Earth. Our Iconauts are among them.
From orbit, the Earth is one place. They worked as one crew because the mission demanded it. They came home knowing space is for life here, and that is what they bring into the room.
Bruce McCandless II, first untethered spacewalk, 1984. Photo: NASA
Listed alphabetically.
Chris Cassidy
NASA Astronaut. Navy SEAL. Led the Astronaut Office. ISS commander. Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate, 2026.
Frank Culbertson
NASA Astronaut. The only American off the planet on September 11, 2001. Aerospace executive. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2010.
LinkedIn profile for Frank CulbertsonThe Honorable
Fred Gregory
NASA Astronaut. Former NASA Deputy Administrator. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2004. National Aviation Hall of Fame, 2024.
LinkedIn profile for Fred GregoryDr. Bernard Harris
NASA Astronaut. Physician and entrepreneur. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2025.
LinkedIn profile for Dr. Bernard HarrisDoug Hurley
NASA Astronaut. Piloted the final Space Shuttle mission and NASA’s first commercial crew flight.
LinkedIn profile for Doug HurleyDr. Janet Kavandi
NASA Astronaut. Led NASA Flight Crew Operations and Glenn Research Center, then served as President of Sierra Space. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2019.
LinkedIn profile for Dr. Janet KavandiThe Honorable
Kathy Sullivan
NASA Astronaut. The most vertical person in history: first American woman to walk in space and first woman to reach the deepest point in the ocean. Former NOAA Administrator. U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, 2004. National Aviation Hall of Fame, 2023.
LinkedIn profile for Kathy SullivanWant people like these on your decision?
Request a sessionNinety minutes. No fee. You talk with an Operating Partner.
The bench at work, in the field and on stage.
For U.S. Government clients. Bolden Group is one firm with two legal companies, each registered on its own. The contract goes to the company doing the work.
Eligible for 8(a) awards. Under SBA rules, agencies can set work aside for small businesses like ours, or award it to us directly.
Because it holds an SBIR Phase II contract, agencies can award follow-on (Phase III) work to it directly, without a new competition.
Fixed-price type agreements. A defined scope and deliverable, priced before work starts.
We do not lobby or advocate for clients before government officials. Privacy notice
United States Marine Corps. A study for the 38th Commandant, the Marine Corps’ top general: eighteen findings and twenty-four recommendations.
Department of the Air Force. Workforce development and organizational culture support, through the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Space Systems Command. Organizational culture and design, as subcontractor to Boston Consulting Group.
Point of contact: A. Ché Bolden, President and CEO. hello@bolden.group
Looking for Inter Astra Institute? It lives at interastra.institute.
Three organizations, one field. Each does a different job.
Opens the door. Aligns the room.
Consulting and advising for the business of space. We give founders, companies, investors, and governments access and opportunity. Then we connect the perspectives that matter, so everyone moves forward together.
Convening and advocacy. The Inter Astra Retreat, public events, and the Emerging Leaders program. interastra.institute
Serves its members. A member group for the companies and people working in the business of space, built around the opportunities they share.
Each is a separate legal organization.
Military services, space startups, global companies, and national governments. You don’t have to be a space company to have a space decision.
A study for the 38th Commandant, the Marine Corps’ top general. Eighteen findings and twenty-four recommendations, presented to its senior generals and civilian leaders.
This was not a space problem. We used the same method anyway.
In 2020 he asked for the facts behind a problem his institution could not see clearly. In 90 days we put retired generals, NASA astronauts, researchers, and authors on one team, and conducted more than fifty interviews across four services.
Early in Axiom Space’s international growth, we helped it engage senior government decision-makers and align with NASA and two foreign governments.
Three international candidates we sourced later flew on private astronaut missions.
Workforce development and organizational culture support, through the Air Force Research Laboratory. Earlier, as a subcontractor to Boston Consulting Group, we supported the Space Force’s Space Systems Command.
Workforce development, leadership culture, and a market analysis convening.
Gulf nations share a neighborhood and an ambition. We help them build space capabilities that complement each other, starting from what each country already does well.
Facing a decision like one of these?
Request a sessionNinety minutes. No fee. You talk with an Operating Partner.
Bring the decision you are facing. You talk with an Operating Partner, the senior person who runs your work. There is no fee, and we take a limited number of sessions each month.
Three questions to ask yourself first.
If you answered yes to all three, we should talk. If not, you may not need us yet.
Bring one of our advisors to your stage. We recommend the right voice and arrange the booking.
Tell us who it is for. That question has built more of this firm than any pitch we have ever given.
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