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Meet Jared Isaacman, the billionaire tapped by Donald Trump and Elon Musk to usher in a new era of space travel—and he has strict rules about meetings

November 6, 2025 by DON

Billionaires from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos are racing to define humanity’s next frontier: space. Both are betting big that interplanetary travel will happen in their lifetime, and now, one of Musk’s closest allies could soon lead NASA itself. Jared Isaacman, self-made billionaire and founder of Shift4 Payments, was renominated this week to lead NASA—a … Read more

Trump flips and re-nominates Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

November 5, 2025 by DON

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Truth Social that he is re-nominating Shift4 founder Jared Isaacman to lead the NASA, the nation’s space agency, months after withdrawing the nomination. The reversal comes after weeks of online sniping from Elon Musk and others directed at Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who … Read more

Congress just greenlit a NASA moon plan opposed by Musk and Isaacman

July 1, 2025 by DON

Legacy aerospace giants scored a win Tuesday when the U.S. Senate passed President Trump’s budget reconciliation bill that earmarks billions more for NASA’s flagship Artemis program. The $10 billion addition to the Artemis architecture, which includes funding for additional Space Launch System rockets and an orbiting station around the moon called Gateway, is a rebuke … Read more

Trump says he’s withdrawing the nomination of Musk associate Jared Isaacman to lead NASA

June 1, 2025 by DON

President Donald Trump announced late Saturday that he is withdrawing the nomination of tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, an associate of Trump adviser Elon Musk, to lead NASA, saying he reached the decision after a “thorough review” of Isaacman’s “prior associations.” It was unclear what Trump meant and the White House did not immediately respond to an emailed request for … Read more