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When he was 12 years old, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the weeklong "Aviation Challenge" program at Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. "For the first time, I got behind the controls of an airplane when I attended Aviation Challenge," Isaacman said on Friday evening during an event at the US Space & Rocket Center. "I became a pilot because I thought that was the closest I would ever get to the stars." Decades later, after founding a successful online payments company and flying to space twice as a private citizen aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon, Isaacman has returned to Space Camp in Alabama on multiple occasions to meet with participants and share a bit of the awe he experienced as a kid. In 2022, a year after the first of these flights, Inspiration4, Isaacman donated $10 million to kick off a Space Camp expansion. Read full article Comments
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