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US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Isaacman, chief executive of payment processing company Shift4Payments FOUR.N, has been a close associate of Elon Musk and his space company SpaceX for years and runs Polaris, a program using SpaceX vehicles to conduct private space missions. astronauts in orbit.
“Jared will lead NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in science, technology and space exploration,” Trump said in a message on its Truth Social platform.
Isaacman, if confirmed to the role, will oversee a $25 billion agency heavily focused on returning humans to the moon as part of its Artemis program, a multibillion-dollar effort promoted by Trump over the course of his first mandate and which will rely on SpaceX’s Starship.
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