NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman visited Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory today (Tuesday). Isaacman wrapped up his visit with a speech to a full auditorium of students and told them they are going to be part of the most exciting era of exploration since the Apollo missions.
He says America is very much back in the business of sending astronauts to the moon and today’s students are the Artemis generation. Referring to the Artemis Two mission that carried the crew farther into space than any humans in history around the moon for the first time in more than half a century.
Isaacman says the return to the moon sets up the next step in space exploration.
Isaacman told the students they can be directly involved in the effort.
He told the students they can be the astronauts, mission control operators, or be the nuclear engineer building the spacecraft to take us to the next destination.
Isaacman brought along some moon rocks from one of the Apollo missions and a lunar vehicle that the I-S-U students could look at as part of his pitch for them to think about a career with NASA.
