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Did Artemis II break through? Registrations at Space Camp double afterward.

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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