{"id":21358,"date":"2025-07-23T00:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T00:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:57:45","slug":"polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Polaris and Isaacman fly at EAA AirVenture"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1500\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"43578\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/07\/21\/polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure\/250721_amd_oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"3309,2206\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Jared Isaacman waving to crowds from his MiG-29 (Austin DeSisto)<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-2.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tJared Isaacman waving to crowds from his MiG-29 (Austin DeSisto)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The jets that make up Ghost Squadron were in town on Day 1 at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin this evening. Shortly after the airshow ended, the MiG-29, L-39 Albatross, and Alpha jets taxiied and took off for a presumed practice run over Lake Winnebago. <\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43575\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the morning the aircraft were parked in the Warbirds area of the venue making them accessible to the public. Jared \u201cRook\u201d Isaacman, the pilot of the MiG-29, arrived around midday and spoke with aviation enthusiasts and guests of AirVenture, standing in front of his jet. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people started to form a line to meet the twice-commander of missions to space. With Inspiration 4 in 2019 and Polaris Dawn most recently in September 2024, Isaacman has become a \u201cfrequent flyer on SpaceX\u2019s Dragon spacecraft. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43577\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/07\/21\/polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure\/5b2a1075-enhanced-nr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"4417,6622\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683\" height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg 4417w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=200,300 200w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=768,1151 768w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=683,1024 683w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=1025,1536 1025w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=1366,2048 1366w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=233,350 233w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=140,210 140w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=667,1000 667w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/5B2A1075-Enhanced-NR.jpg?resize=150,225 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Polaris Dawn flying over the U.S. Capitol Building (Austin DeSisto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In preparation for both flights, Isaacman would reportedly take his fellow crew mates to the Polaris Program base in Bozeman, Montana for flight training. <\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-43575',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaacman expressed excitement for being at the centerpoint of aviation in a podcast interview with Glenn Beck released on July 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m actually on my way to America\u2019s biggest airshow, Oshkosh, and I\u2019m flying the MiG-29 in it,\u201d said Isaacman when discussing Draken, his company which contracted with the Department of Defense. On his way out before flying tonight, Isaacman gave the crowd on the flightline a wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In various recent media interviews, Isaacman has discussed potentially keeping a foot in politics in the future. This comes despite being axed as a NASA Administrator nominee days before the full Senate confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaacman has stated that he may have been the collateral damage as a result of a public falling-out between two individuals, as he puts it in the interview with Beck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the turmoil that come with polities, the soft spoken pioneer in aviation and spaceflight sent full afterburners tonight rounding out a hot first day of EAA AirVenture. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43579\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/07\/21\/polaris-and-isaacman-fly-at-eaa-airventure\/250721_amd_oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"5434,3623\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg 5434w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=2048,1365 2048w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=350,233 350w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=140,93 140w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=1500,1000 1500w, https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/07\/250721_amd_Oshkosh1_polaristakeoff-1.jpg?resize=150,100 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MiG-29 departs Oshkosh (Austin DeSisto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}