Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA
Trump Gives Elon Musk’s Buddy Total Control Over NASA
Donald Trump’s pick for NASA head, billionaire Jared Isaacman, should worry anyone who cares about space.
Cool, let's make NASA even more about capitalism instead of science, what could go wrong? And surely we won't see NASA funding funneled off to SpaceX through shady contracts either. Ugh.
"He's going to drain the swamp!"
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Nic Cage would not appreciate your alphabetical filing
What can I say, I went through the American education system!
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Well, there goes NASA. So long and thanks for all the fish.
I highly doubt it. Maybe some enshitification, but NASA funding comes from Congress, and provides a LOT of jobs to a lot of different districts. Even in Republican-led legislators it has been funded at good levels, and Trump has repeatedly expressed the desire to return to the moon during his term.
I can't stand orange man or rocket man, but they do seem to have a desire to return to a space age that is making some progress.
The dolphins are departing any moment now..
This is a quite inflammatory headline. Technically true, but it turns out Isaacman is a decent pick for NASA administrator. After all, he’s a real fighter jet pilot and astronaut who has performed multiple scientific missions in orbit.
Yeah, he’ll probably push for more commercial launch services. For example, he’s a big proponent of a Hubble service mission to fix the gyroscopes that are currently broken.
I predict substantial outsourcing to SpaceX. Good for Trump/Musk, not good for NASA.
Idk how he got treated in training to become an astronaut as someone who was partially funding it (conflict of interest wise). Definitely has some insights into the internals of the program now
It's blatantly obvious it's just a pipeline to pour tax money into SpaceX.
a processing card company CEO
Another unqualified candidate!