Being a NASA administrator is a full-time job, especially when you’re trying to reshape the agency and accelerate plans to return humans to the moon. Jared Isaacman has also found time for flying fighter jets, often in the service of NASA. Some of his flights carry NASA employees as rewards for their work, while in another case he led a flyover before a Cleveland Browns game.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...