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MISSION: DISCOVERY-2026STATUS: SELECTING COHORT LIVE

The next economy will be built by people who can operate under uncertainty.

Inside NASA's mission environment, founders, executives and operators train decision-making, leadership and strategic thinking under extreme constraints.

This is not motivation.
This is a system upgrade.
DISCOVERY MISSION 2026 · APRIL 6–10 · NASA, HOUSTON

Most executives spend their lives optimizing inside systems built for the last century. Discovery Mission is designed for people preparing for the next one.

COORD: 29°33'46"N 95°05'30"WALT: +12MMISSION: DISCOVERY
5
DAYS INSIDE THE MISSION
20+
COUNTRIES IN THE COHORT
15+
NASA OPERATORS ON FACULTY
95%
REPORT A STRATEGIC SHIFT
The real enemy

The 10% life is the new stagnation.

Incremental thinking. Industrial-age success models. Career stagnation disguised as stability. That's the quiet failure mode of the most credentialed people in the room.

The next decade rewards a different operator: one who can decide under uncertainty, lead teams that don't share your language, and build coherence when the system around them is moving faster than it ever has.

Five years from now there will be two kinds of leaders: those who adapted to the new economy, and those who kept operating as if nothing had changed. This is built for the first group.

Mission control visualization
POSITIONING:
This is not a conference about the future. It is a live operating environment inside it.
What you walk out with

Three outcomes, engineered for the next economy.

Not modules. Not takeaways. Capabilities you keep — and people who stay in your life long after the mission ends.

Make high-stakes decisions faster, under uncertainty.
OUTCOME_01

Make high-stakes decisions faster, under uncertainty.

Trained inside the same simulation environment NASA uses to prepare crews — so when resources, time and information run out at work, you don't.

Walk out with NASA's 5-step decision framework
Learn how elite operators actually think under pressure.
OUTCOME_02

Learn how elite operators actually think under pressure.

Direct, unscripted exchanges with NASA astronauts and senior engineers — the people who run missions where mistakes are not theoretical.

Sit across from 15+ NASA operators
Leave with a concrete plan for your next decade.
OUTCOME_03

Leave with a concrete plan for your next decade.

PQ assessment plus the IGNIS mission framework, applied to your career — a real operating plan, not a vision board.

Author your 10-year strategic blueprint
Who this cohort is selected for

High-agency operators preparing for the next economic era.

Different roles, the same pattern — strong operators who can feel the old model expiring and refuse to coast through the transition.

OPERATOR_01

Senior commercial operators

PAIN

You can sell. You can't yet sit at the table where the buyers actually decide. You're still read as a vendor, not a peer.

SOLUTION

You walk back in fluent in NewSpace, the next-economy thesis and NASA-grade decision logic — and CEOs start treating you as someone worth thinking out loud with.

Peer-level accessStrategic vocabularyIdentity that doesn't expire
OPERATOR_02

Executives stuck below the ceiling

PAIN

Your résumé is strong, your output is strong, and you've stalled. What's missing is a story that signals: this person operates at the next level.

SOLUTION

A NASA mission credential, an IGNIS strategic blueprint and a peer cohort that recasts you as a leader built for what's coming next.

Promotion-grade differentiationCross-domain leadershipExternal operator network
OPERATOR_03

Leaders designing a second act

PAIN

You've been the 'twenty-year veteran' for too long. The market wants a forward-leaning operator, and you're still being introduced by your past.

SOLUTION

Become the person preparing for the next economy. Your story stops being a résumé and starts being a trajectory — visible, current, in motion.

New identityForward-leaning narrativeEntry to a new circle
OPERATOR_04

Founders building for what's next

PAIN

Your company is still being run on industrial-era playbooks. The frontier operators — SpaceX, Anduril, NVIDIA-class teams — are not.

SOLUTION

You return with a frontier operating mindset, an AI × space-economy lens, and a founder peer set you would never have assembled on LinkedIn.

Frontier operating mindsetAI × space-economy lensFounder peer cohort
Inside the mission environment

Six operating upgrades. Engineered, not improvised.

Each component is built to answer one question: what capability do you walk out with that you didn't walk in with?

Decide better

THE FOUNDATION
01

Make calls under real constraints

Step inside the simulation system NASA uses to train crews. You decide, you ship, you live with the trade-off — and your decision speed permanently shifts.

Internalize NASA's 5-step crisis decision framework
02

Stand inside the operating room

Walk into the restricted-area facilities general visitors never reach. See how a high-consequence organization actually runs in real time.

Read a live mission environment from the inside

Upgrade the operator

THE TRANSFORMATION
03

See yourself with data, not stories

PQ surfaces your drivers, your pressure patterns and the blind spots that have quietly capped you. You stop guessing.

95% of operators identify a hidden capability
04

Author a real ten-year plan

Not a wish list. The IGNIS mission framework, applied to your career — strategy, sequence, and the next 12 months in detail.

Leave with a 10-year strategic blueprint

Step into a new room

THE NETWORK
05

Think alongside elite operators

Sit-down, unscripted exchanges with NASA astronauts and senior engineers. You learn how they hold pressure, sequence calls and lead teams that can't fail.

15+ NASA operators, in the room with you
06

Join a cohort you can actually use

Not business cards. A small group of high-agency founders and executives across 20+ countries who stay in your operating system for the next decade.

A peer set that compounds for years
Five-day mission brief

Five days inside the operating environment of the next economy.

Sequenced from recalibration to execution — every day adds a capability you keep.

DATES
April 6–10, 2026 (5 days / 4 nights)
LOCATION
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
LANGUAGE
English (translation device recommended)
ELIGIBILITY
Professionals 22+
01

Recalibrate your operating model

DAY 1 · ORIENTATION & MINDSET
  • Cohort opening and operator alignment
  • Mapping the next-economy landscape — AI, space, frontier capital
  • Introduction to NASA's decision framework
  • PQ personal operating assessment — Phase 1
02

Decide inside a live mission

DAY 2 · MISSION SIMULATION
  • Step inside NASA's restricted-area mission facilities
  • High-stakes decision simulation under live constraint
  • Cross-functional team challenge — language, role, time
  • Building under conditions that don't forgive guessing
03

Learn how elite operators think

DAY 3 · ASTRONAUT DIALOGUE
  • Unscripted exchanges with NASA astronauts
  • Leadership patterns from missions that could not fail
  • How elite operators hold pressure without flinching
  • Where the next economy is being built right now
04

Build your ten-year operating plan

DAY 4 · PERSONAL MISSION
  • PQ deep analysis — drivers, patterns, ceilings
  • IGNIS personal mission workshop
  • Strategy sequencing for the next decade
  • Author the next 12 months in concrete detail
05

Re-enter as a different operator

DAY 5 · GRADUATION & NETWORK
  • Blueprint presentations to the cohort
  • Lock in the peer network that travels home with you
  • NASA mission certification
  • Ongoing operating system and follow-through
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NASA TRAINING FACILITIES — the real environments you'll experience (NBL pool, mission control, training capsule, team collaboration).

Who you learn from

Operators who actually ran the missions you read about.

Not keynote speakers. NASA astronauts, mission engineers and scientists who have led under conditions that don't tolerate performance.

NASA speakers

Past faculty includes ISS commanders, astronauts, ISS chief scientists, Apollo program engineers, planetary protection officers and senior mission leads.

Mission validation

Standing on the shoulders of giants

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"HASSE is an outstanding organization. We've collaborated closely since 2006 and will continue to do so."
Dr. Deborah Barnhart
CEO, U.S. Space & Rocket Center
Arthur Wang · 2012
"HASSE was incredibly inspiring — it's absolutely one of the reasons I'm at SpaceX today."
Arthur Wang · 2012
Starship engineer, SpaceX
Dr. Georg Von Tiesenhausen
"HASSE is the finest organization I've ever encountered."
Dr. Georg Von Tiesenhausen
Apollo Lunar Rover Chief Engineer · NASA Hall of Fame
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"I recommend HASSE not only to those interested in space, but to anyone who wants to broaden their horizons."
Wayne Lin · 2006
Founder · Forbes 30 Under 30, 2017

This cohort is deliberately not for everyone.

A selective environment only works if the room is selected.

Not selected if…

  • ×you're optimizing inside a model built for the last century.
  • ×you live in 10% increments and aren't willing to think in decades.
  • ×you want success stories, not a re-examination of yourself.
  • ×you treat 'no time' as a strategy.

Selected if…

  • you've already won at the current game — and you know that game is ending.
  • you're done with 10% optimization; you want a category step-change.
  • you're willing to be honest about the parts of yourself you've avoided.
  • you treat your own capacity as the highest-leverage asset you operate.
Cohort terms

Four ways to enter the mission.

April 6–10, 2026 · NASA, Houston. Pricing reflects the seat — the cohort itself is selected.

LIMITED EARLY BIRD

EARLY BIRD

Ends Dec 31
$5,999
  • Stay4 nights
  • RoomDouble
  • PQ assessmentStandard
  • 1-on-1 PQ coach
  • Pre-arrival night
  • Full-board meals
  • Priority concierge
FIT
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STANDARD

Main package
$6,999
  • Stay4 nights
  • RoomDouble
  • PQ assessmentStandard
  • 1-on-1 PQ coach
  • Pre-arrival night
  • Full-board meals
  • Priority concierge
FIT
Full experience, the default choice
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SINGLE + COACH

Single room + PQ coach
$7,999
  • Stay4 nights
  • RoomSingle
  • PQ assessmentStandard
  • 1-on-1 PQ coach
  • Pre-arrival night
  • Full-board meals
  • Priority concierge
FIT
For those who want privacy and deeper analysis
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ALL-INCLUSIVE

EXECUTIVE FULL

Everything, end to end
$8,999
  • Stay5 nights
  • RoomSingle
  • PQ assessmentPremium
  • 1-on-1 PQ coach
  • Pre-arrival night
  • Full-board meals
  • Priority concierge
FIT
Maximum value, zero hassle
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30-day money-back guarantee

30 days from confirmation to withdraw and receive a full refund. No risk on the decision — the only risk is staying where you are.

Early application window open

Early application closes 2025/12/31. Every seat includes the full HASSE × NASA mission program and certification.

Cohort selection in progress

This is not a conference about the future.
It is a live operating environment inside it.

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MISSION · APRIL 6–10, 2026 · NASA HOUSTON

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