{"id":257384,"date":"2026-01-29T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:57:10","slug":"nasa-administrator-visits-ohios-glenn-research-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257384\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA administrator visits Ohio\u2019s Glenn Research Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND – NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman visited NASA Glenn Research Center on<\/a> Tuesday, meeting with the workforce and touring facilities focused on propulsion and power systems.<\/p>\n

During the visit, Isaacman met with employees over coffee, toured the facility\u2019s Electric Propulsion and Power Lab, and discussed nuclear power and propulsion research with its experts. He also met with specialists conducting advanced aircraft engine research and testing, according to Jan Wittry, a NASA Glenn press spokesperson. <\/p>\n

\u201cConsistent with the President\u2019s national space policy, we are going to accelerate our plans to develop nuclear-powered spacecraft – many centers will contribute and Glenn will play an important role,\u201d Isaacman wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Isaacman noted that NASA Glenn \u201ccontributes critical expertise on propulsion, power, and materials – from electric propulsion to nuclear systems – that enables ambitious exploration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The visit marked the completion of Isaacman\u2019s tour of all NASA centers since taking office. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a wrap on the roadshow to visit every NASA center – thank you to all of those across the workforce who came out for donuts and coffee,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Shontel Brown, a Warrensville Heights Democrat, met with Isaacman at Glenn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciated the opportunity to meet with Administrator Isaacman, welcome him to Cleveland, and reiterate the importance of the Glenn Center and the people who work there,\u201d said a statement from Brown. \u201cThe research and innovation being done here is truly awe-inspiring and it strengthens our local economy.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cLast year, the Trump Administration pursued drastic cuts to NASA Glenn that would have cost over 500 jobs, damaged our local economy, and set our country back,\u201d her statement continued. “Congress rightly rejected those cuts<\/a>, and that should be the end of it.” <\/p>\n

\u201cNASA\u2019s footprint in Ohio should grow, not shrink, and I urge the Administration not to put forward the same foolish cuts to NASA and the Glenn Center again,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n

Isaacman, 42, is the 15th NASA Administrator. President Donald Trump nominated him on Nov. 4, 2025, and he was confirmed by the Senate on Dec. 17, 2025. <\/p>\n

Before joining NASA, Isaacman founded payment processing company Shift4 and co-founded Draken International, a military pilot training company. He commanded two commercial spaceflights, including Inspiration4 in 2021, the first all-civilian orbital mission, and Polaris Dawn in 2024, during which he performed the first commercial spacewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND – NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman visited NASA Glenn Research Center on Tuesday, meeting with the workforce and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-257384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}