ND Senator Shows NASA Space Grant Support at Annual Meeting

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Senator John Hoeven is pitching space investment as both an education opportunity and a national security priority, pointing to the NASA Space Grant Consortium and a new $250 million Space Force Operations Center planned for Grand Forks.

Senator John Hoeven is a proud supporter of the Space Grant Consortium program. On Friday, at Gateway to Science in Bismarck, he cheered on members of the program.

“It’s a way for these young people to get directly involved and think how important that is for their future,” said Hoeven. “Not just learning about this stuff, but actually getting in and working on it that enables them to get great jobs, the jobs of the future, but also develop these exciting new technologies themselves.”

The program includes more than 850 affiliates across the country, designed to get young people working directly in the aeronautics field, including those here in North Dakota.

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Author Credit: Ariana Gonzalez

Image Credit: ND Space Grant Consortium

Original Post Date: 4.24.26