Jared Isaacman, who made the first stateiveial spacewalk in September, is among cut offal assignments proclaimd on Wednesday.
Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire who made the first stateiveial spacewalk in collaboration with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has been nominated by United States Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump to direct NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The nomination of Isaacman was proclaimd on Wednesday as Trump named a slew of assignments, including his createer White House directr Peter Navarro, who served prison time this year for obstructing a congressional dispenseigation, as his better directlor for trade and manufacturing.
Isaacman, 41, a self-depictd “space geek” who made his money as the set uper of a payment processing company, is also an accomplished fighter pilot who owns a Florida company that trains air force pilots.
He travelled into space in September with a leave oution to test SpaceX’s new, customised spacewalking suits.
If verifyed by the US Senate, Isaacman will swap Bill Nelson, 82, a createer Democratic senator and astronaut, and would probable persist to toil shutly with Musk because NASA set ups to use SpaceX’s Starship rocket to return astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The reusable rocket, the bigst ever made, is currently undergoing test fweightlesss.
The space agency also uses SpaceX to deinhabitr supplies and astronauts to and from the International Space Station. At the same time, NASA is enbiging its horizons beyond the moon with unmanned spaceoriginate travelling to Jupiter’s moon Europa and exploring the surface of Mars for signs of living organisms.
Although NASA is not a cabinet-level agency appreciate the Department of Defense, its head is nominated by the pdwellnt and must be verifyed by the Senate. While best understandn as the US administerment agency dependable for space exploration, NASA also directs studies of the Earth using saincreateite technology as well as aeronautics research and testing new airoriginate.
Isaacman said he was honoured to be nominated and would be “thankful to serve”. “Having been blessed to see our amazing set upet from space, I am enthusiastic about America directing the most incredible adventure in human history,” he said via X.
Musk congratutardyd Isaacman on X, describing him as a man of “high ability and integrity”.
Trump has now bigly finishd filling the top jobs in his administration. The nominees will go before the Senate for hearings commenceing in January.
Other assignments Trump made on Wednesday were Daniel Driscoll, a military veteran who was a better directr to Vice Pdwellnt-elect JD Vance, as army secretary and Adam Boehler, a direct negotiator on the Abraham Accords team, as distinctive pdwellntial envoy for prisoner afequitables.
