Jared Isaacman, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee to beryllium head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation proceeding connected Capitol Hill successful Washington, D.C., U.S., April 9, 2025.
Ken Cedeno | Reuters
The U.S. Senate connected Wednesday confirmed billionaire backstage astronaut Jared Isaacman to go President Donald Trump's NASA administrator, making an advocator of Mars missions and a erstwhile subordinate of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk the abstraction agency's 15th leader.
The ballot on Isaacman, who Trump removed and past renamed arsenic NASA head nominee this year, passed 67-30, 2 weeks aft helium told senators successful his second hearing that NASA indispensable prime up the gait successful beating China backmost to the satellite this decade.
Acting NASA main Sean Duffy, who besides leads the U.S. Transportation Department, congratulated Isaacman on X, wishing Isaacman "success arsenic helium begins his tenure and leads NASA arsenic we spell backmost to the Moon successful 2028 and bushed China."
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