Just a day before the Boston Celtics’ regular season finale against the Washington Wizards, Celtics wing Jaylen Brown went on a trip to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in order to visit the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Control Center. The Goddard Space Flight center is located near Washington D.C., in Prince George’s County, Maryland.
At 22-years-old and having already made nearly $15 million over the last three seasons, it would be easy for Brown to be like many other young, NBA players, fixated on fun and the relatively carefree lifestyle that wealth can create. Yet, as has been well-documented, Brown is one of the NBA’s true polymaths, having a noted interest in a wide variety of topics and having developed a taste for off-court activities like lectures at the MIT Media Lab, involvement as a high-ranking officer in the National Basketball Player’s Association (NBPA) and tech investments.
That said, while his trip to visit the Hubble Space Telescope Operations Control Center could just be seen as a player entertaining himself, it’s more than likely that Brown took a genuine interest in what he was being shown and told.
Per NASA‘s official website, “Hubble, the observatory, is the first major optical telescope to be placed in space, the ultimate mountaintop” and “Hubble’s launch and deployment in April 1990 marked the most significant advance in astronomy since Galileo’s telescope.”
