Trump re-nominates billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

Isaacman has flown into orbit doubly connected all-private astronaut missions. | Image: Getty

President Donald Trump has erstwhile again picked tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to beryllium the adjacent NASA Administrator, 5 months aft pulling the initial information helium made past year. Isaacman, an Elon Musk state and commercialized astronaut who has travelled into orbit doubly arsenic a civilian aboard SpaceX rockets, was reportedly withdrawn from consideration implicit erstwhile governmental donations to Democrats, a time aft Musk stepped away from the White House successful May.

“I americium pleased to nominate Jared Isaacman, an accomplished concern leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut, arsenic Administrator of NASA,” Trump announced connected Truth Social. “Jared’s passionateness for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the caller Space economy, marque him ideally suited to pb NASA into a bold caller Era.”

The President did not admit his erstwhile information of Isaacman, but did praise US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy for his enactment serving arsenic interim NASA main since July. Likewise, Isaacman besides doesn’t notation his erstwhile information successful his X station thanking Trump, saying it “will beryllium an grant to service my state nether your leadership.”

“The enactment from the space-loving assemblage has been overwhelming,” said Isaacman. “I americium not definite however I earned the spot of truthful many, but I volition bash everything I tin to unrecorded up to those expectations.”

Isaacman has donated more than $1 million to pro-Trump organizations successful caller weeks, and Bloomberg reports that helium has met with the President respective times successful idiosyncratic to sermon enactment plans for NASA. If Isaacman’s latest information is confirmed, he’ll presume bid implicit a diminished mentation of the abstraction agency, which has lost thousands of employees since July and faces enormous fund cuts that endanger to terminate 2 planned Mars missions.