{"id":234,"date":"2026-02-03T21:55:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:21:32","slug":"dr-mike-houts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/dr-mike-houts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Houts, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-240 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0691-scaled-e1770157497499.jpeg 1660w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Dr. Mike Houts<\/strong> has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u00a0 He was employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 11 years where he served in various positions including Team Leader for Criticality, Reactor, and Radiation Physics and Deputy Group Leader of the 70 person Nuclear Design and Risk Analysis group.\u00a0 Dr. Houts was employed by NASA for 24 years, serving as Nuclear Research Manager for NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center as well as principal investigator for NASA\u2019s Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) project prior to retiring in 2025.\u00a0 Awards for his work included a NASA Distinguished Service Medal, a NASA Exceptional Service Medal, a NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal, and being selected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mike Houts has a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u00a0 He was employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 11 years where he served in various positions including Team Leader for Criticality, Reactor, and Radiation Physics and Deputy Group Leader of the 70 person Nuclear Design and Risk Analysis group.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":240,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-team-member"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/isitaustin.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}