Jared Isaacman Dropped By White House As Choice To Be NASA Administrator

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Back on April 30, Isaacman, the businessman-turned -SpaceX astronaut was voted favorably on by a Senate committee with a vote of 19-9 , moving his confirmation ahead for a final vote.

Many space industry leaders and astronauts have been pushing for Isaacman to lead the space agency, believing he would bring the right vision at a time when NASA faces a challenge from China for supremacy in space.

This sudden shakeup in the nominee to lead the space agency also comes as the NASA budget looks headed toward some deep cuts. The proposal calls for slashing NASA science, and cancelling the SLS moon rocket after the Artemis III mission as well as dropping the Gateway lunar space station.

Isaacman has been to space twice under his private SpaceX-based spaceflight ventures, Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn. Both missions flew on SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon capsules and Isaacman is considered close to SpaceX leader Elon Musk.