President-elect Trump has nominated Shift4 founder and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) as the next NASA Administrator. pic.twitter.com/r3ibIFzcWa
— A. Pettit (@PettitFrontier) December 4, 2024
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Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman.
Couldn’t have come at a better time. Maybe now we can rescue the Hubble Space Telescope from oblivion…
Why would Jared take the job?
You’ll have to ask him. But Trump wouldn’t have announced it if Jared had refused privately as I’m sure he had the opportunity to do so had he not wanted the nomination…
To serve his country?
This is what he has been training for
It will be interesting to see Tory Bruno’s reaction, but he hasn’t Tweeted in a week.
I think Starliner and Orion are going to have to put on quite a dog and pony show for Jared if they hope to continue.
I think Starliner and Orion are going to have to put on quite a dog and pony show for Jared if they hope to continue.
No problem. Unite the two programs. Starliner to put astronauts into orbit and Orion to return them from orbit with only a single EVA needed… Assuming the magical, mystery fix to Orion’s heat-shield works… All the old-space folks will be very happy.
So Rook will be ‘Administrator Isaacman’ before he gets to be ‘Commodore Isaacman.’ Fine by me.
Great choice. He already has his own space program that has earned a lot of good will that will be hard for Democrats to attack.
Just can’t wait to find out who he raped