Trump Nominates Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator

“Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth,” Isaacman said on X.

Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments, stands for a portrait in front of the recovered first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket at Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, Calif., on Feb. 2, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

President-elect Donald Trump named commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the next administrator for the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) on Dec. 4.

Trump described Isaacman on Truth Social as “an accomplished business leader, philanthropist, pilot, and astronaut” and someone who “will drive NASA’s mission of discovery and inspiration, paving the way for groundbreaking achievements in Space science, technology, and exploration.”