Jim Bridenstine
Jim Bridenstine served as the 13th Administrator of NASA, where he was responsible for managing NASA’s 70,000-person workforce and $23 billion annual budget. Under his leadership, NASA reestablished a human spaceflight program to launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil for the first time since the Space Shuttles were retired in 2011. He also created NASA’s Artemis program to establish the first permanent presence on the Moon with commercial partners and the largest international spaceflight coalition in history.
Before being appointed as NASA Administrator, Jim served in the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma’s First Congressional District from 2013 to 2018. He was a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee where he chaired the Subcommittee on the Environment.
Oral Roberts University (ORU) recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Redwire Space, a company committed to accelerating humanity’s expansion into space by delivering reliable, economical, and sustainable infrastructure for future generations. The signing was part of ORU’s Partners in Economics, Commerce, and Entrepreneurship (PECE) luncheon, which featured Bridenstine.
"We have created treatments for diseases in space that will, in fact, be transformational over time. I believe there are treatments that will come from communities like ORU, which can be fundamentally transformational for humanity."- Jim Bridenstine
(L to R): Dr. William M. Wilson, Jim Bridenstine, and Richard Boling, VP of Redwire.
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