{"id":165447,"date":"2025-12-03T04:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165447\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:37:06","slug":"nasa-nominee-warns-us-dominance-at-risk-in-china-space-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/165447\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Nominee Warns US Dominance at Risk in China Space Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/29638Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">NASA<\/a>, billionaire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/711339Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">SpaceX<\/a> astronaut Jared Isaacman, will warn lawmakers during a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that falling behind in the space race against China could have grave consequences for the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">\u201cThis is not the time for delay, but for action, because if we fall behind \u2014 if we make a mistake \u2014 we may never catch up, and the consequences could shift the balance of power here on Earth,\u201d Isaacman wrote in prepared remarks seen by Bloomberg on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead NASA, billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman, will warn lawmakers during a Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[138,607,8310,15583,19982,648,54960,16537,111,139,69,135,147,54961,392,1401,1430],"class_list":["post-165447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-business","tag-china","tag-congress","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-industries","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-shift4-payments-inc-class-a","tag-space","tag-transportation","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}