Billionaire Jared Isaacman confirmed as new head of NASA
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The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA's new head, following a nomination process that saw President Trump initially withdraw and then reinstate him. Isaacman, founder of Shift4 and a SpaceX spaceflight veteran, will lead the agency.
The Senate confirmed Jared Isaacman's appointment as the head of NASA on Wednesday, a decision that comes just months after President Donald Trump pulled his nomination before picking him yet again in November, as reported earlier by CNBC.
Isaacman, the founder and CEO of a payments platform called Shift4, has flown to space twice through private missions with Elon Musk's SpaceX. After choosing Isaacman as head of NASA in December 2024, Trump pulled his nomination in May, later saying in a Truth Social post that he thought it would be "inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA."
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