NASA’s 15th Administrator Jared Issacman, left, speaks with, from left, Todd Ericson, senior advisor to the administrator, NASA pilot Mike Lippert, and NASA pilot Wayne Ringelberg at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base, California, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. Behind them is the agency’s F/A-18 aircraft, which Lippert and Ringelberg flew during the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach, California, Oct. 2-4.