The man who commanded multiple space missions for Elon Musk has been nominated to lead NASA.
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Jared Isaacman, the billionaire and repeat SpaceX astronaut, to be NASA's administrator on Wednesday.
Isaacman, who is also the CEO of the payments company Shift4, recently made history by leading the first private spacewalk with SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission. The five-day mission took Isaacman and three others further from Earth than anyone has traveled since the Apollo moon missions.
"We have to keep going," Isaacman said about space exploration in a November interview with Business Insider. "We just got to proceed with caution and just make sure we get it right. And if we do, we stand to learn so much that can change the course of trajectory of humankind."
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Trump nominates billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
- by: Ana Altchek,Morgan McFall-Johnsen
- 12/05/24
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- 12/05/2024
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