Jared Isaacman planned two more missions with SpaceX, including Starship's first crewed flight. Trump has thrown his Polaris Program into question.

NASA is facing an identity crisis, with budget woes, outdated policies, and aging infrastructure threatening the space agency.

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead the nation’s top space agency. The former president cited Isaacman’s accomplishments in business, philanthropy, and space, saying his passion and dedication made him “ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new era. ”

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, a private astronaut and the billionaire CEO of Shift4, to be the next NASA Administrator. Isaacman has led two private spaceflights through SpaceX, including the company's first spacewalk in September.

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Jared Isaacman, who led and financed SpaceX's Inspiration4 and Polaris Dawn private-astronaut missions, to become the next NASA administrator. Trump announced Isaacman's nomination in a Wednesday morning Truth Social post.

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated billionaire SpaceX backer and close Elon Musk associate Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator.

Isaacman founded Shift4 Payments and has funded and commanded two orbital missions that flew with SpaceX hardware.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon Musk's SpaceX "may wind up on hold for a moment,

Billionaire and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman said increased human activity in space will require military protection.