Trump picks Musk's billionaire associate to lead NASA

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/science/jared-isaacman-trump-nasa.html

Trump Picks Jared Isaacman, an Entrepreneur and Private Astronaut, to Lead NASA
Mr. Isaacman’s company Shift4 Payments made him a billionaire, and he has financed two trips to orbit on SpaceX vehicles, including a daring spacewalk in September.
By Kenneth Chang
Dec. 4, 2024, 12:30 p.m. ET

President-elect Donald J. Trump will nominate Jared Isaacman, a billionaire entrepreneur who led two private missions to orbit on SpaceX rockets, as the next NASA administrator.

Mr. Isaacman, the chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, is a close associate of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, and, if confirmed to the post by the Senate, would bring the perspective of an outsider to the space agency and its $25 billion budget.

“Jared will drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration,” Mr. Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform.

Mr. Isaacman, 41, made his entrance to the space world in February 2021 when he announced he was financing a private mission called Inspiration4. Riding in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, the mission was the first in which no one aboard was a professional astronaut.

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A government of billionaires, by billionaires, for billionaires

[Johonny]

1. Self licking ice cream cone

[Ocelot II]

2. Gonna privatize NASA now.

Or at least award all the contracts to this guy and his cronies.

[RobinA]

3. Does This Guy

know anything about space4?