Right when I was going to go to bed I found an Atlas Pass plans. I also learned to make something that I think's called unstable plasma. Made one (it costs a ton of mats) but have nothing I can use it on yet. Hopefully I find something when I play tomorrow.
I was getting really close to giving up on this game. Got ambushed by 4 ships and barely had enough titanium to keep repairing shields until I killed them all. I flew back down to the planet I was just on but had to do it really slowly because I have no shields left and nearly died from asteroids. I land by a building thinking something interesting is there, but nope. Now I don't have enough Plutonium to launch back up again and there's none in site. A storm pops up and I start thinking that this is it as I don't have much to repair my thermal gear (hot planet, storm made it about 112c). When my thermal shields is down to 50%, I finally found a cave. I was just going to stay in it until the storm passed, but inside was hundreds and hundreds of Plutonium. Finally things are starting to look up for me. I gathered 1000 Plutonium and about 100 Aluminum, plus a little Iron until the storm cleared. When I walk out of the cave, I see a building close to me. Inside I found plans for an upgraded jetpack, as well as a shop. Besides the 5 minute walk back to my ship, I'm feeling fantastic. I made the improved jetpack as well as a warp cell (bought the mats I didn't have from the shop) and set off to another galaxy.
I still haven't found anywhere to upgrade my exosuit yet but besides that I'm feeling a lot better than I was earlier.