Space dreams

It's the dream of a lifetime for NASA's new administrator, Jared Isaacson. 

He knows his life arc is unusual: "You should not be able to drop out of high school at 16, start a company, and wind up an astronaut leading NASA someday. It's why we live in the greatest nation in the world."

Now that he's smack in the middle of America's space industry (image), what does he dream about for our future in space? 

A US base on the Moon, of course, comes first. Helium mining on the Moon. Within a decade, there'll be dozens of flights into space in a year instead of just one every few years. Many international space stations will handle civilian visitors. Space Reactor 1-Freedom, the first-ever nuclear-powered interplanetary spaceship, will go to Mars in Dec. 2028 where it will drop off 3 unmanned space helicopters to go exploring. Our first astronauts will go to Mars in ten years. 

Do his dreams sound starry-eyed? He thinks we can change the world.

from The Free Press