"Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman's confirmation comes a little over a year after Trump nominated him. It was a volatile year for Isaacman, though, as Trump pulled his nomination in June after becoming concerned about the billionaire's "prior associations.""
"That led to months of sniping between Trump's camp and people more closely aligned with Isaacman, like SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who publicly attacked the credibility of acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy. Trump ultimately flipped in November and re-nominated Isaacman. The billionaire will now oversee a trimmed-down space agency that Trump has tasked with returning to the Moon. SpaceX has a contract to land astronauts on the lunar surface, though Duffy had threatened to revoke that contract,"
Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as NASA administrator. Isaacman is a billionaire entrepreneur, private astronaut, and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform. Trump nominated him a little over a year earlier, then withdrew the nomination in June due to concerns about Isaacman's prior political donations, prompting public disputes between Trump's team and Isaacman's allies such as Elon Musk. Trump re-nominated Isaacman in November and the Senate confirmed him. Isaacman will oversee a reduced NASA with a presidential mandate to return astronauts to the Moon amid controversy over a SpaceX lunar-landing contract and rivalry involving Blue Origin.
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