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NASA budget is one of many agencies the White House plans to cut, with some former employees calling it an abdication of leadership in scientific research.
Financial technology billionaire Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination to run NASA due to his close ties to Elon Musk amid the SpaceX chief executive officer’s falling out in Washington.
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Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump’s former nominee for NASA administrator, said Wednesday the reason for his pulled nomination may have been made over his ties to Elon Musk,
Trump has proposed axing NASA’s Surface Geology and Biology mission, which monitors methane and carbon pollution but also hunts for and identifies deposits of critical minerals. Also endangered is NASA’s Landsat satellite program, which provides key data on water levels and distribution as well as the ways global warming is altering Earth.
Jared Isaacman was just days away from becoming the new NASA administrator. So why did the president pull his own nominee?
The aerospace community was caught off guard this week by President Trump’s withdrawal of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman’s NASA nomination. Announced days before the Senate’s likely confirmation of Isaacman,
President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he will "soon announce a new Nominee who will be Mission aligned, and put America First in Space."