US President Donald Trump is pulling back his nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman to serve as Nasa administrator just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the senate, said a person familiar with the decision on Saturday.The individual spoke on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to speak…
The White House announced Saturday that President Donald Trump will soon unveil a new nominee to lead NASA, confirming that tech billionaire Jared Isaacman is no longer in consideration for the role. While no official explanation was given for the reversal, the move came just days before the Senate was expected to vote on Isaacman’s…
NASA will prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars, President Trump’s nominee to lead the space agency will tell a Senate committee on Wednesday. The nominee is Jared Isaacman, the chief executive of the payment processing company Shift4 Payments, who is a close associate of Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. As someone who has led…
Jared Isaacman, a billionaire astronaut who led the first private spacewalk during a SpaceX mission in September, has been tapped by US President-elect Donald Trump to lead Nasa, the country’s top space agency. From being a high school dropout to a businessman and now a billionaire spacewalker, the 41-year-old brings with him a unique blend…