{"id":245801,"date":"2025-11-05T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245801\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T18:47:08","slug":"jared-isaacman-renominated-by-donald-trump-to-be-nasa-chief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/245801\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Isaacman renominated by Donald Trump to be Nasa chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Why Trump has suddenly changed his mind is unclear, and the president made no mention of the past when he wrote on his Truth Social platform that he was &#8220;pleased to nominate&#8221; Isaacman for the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Jared&#8217;s passion for Space, astronaut experience, and dedication to pushing the boundaries of exploration, unlocking the mysteries of the universe, and advancing the new Space economy, make him ideally suited to lead NASA into a bold new Era,&#8221; the president wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nasa administrator role will be Isaacman&#8217;s first job in politics, representing a departure from the last two men appointed to the job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It requires confirmation by the Senate, where the Republican Party holds a 53-47 majority. Even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy40qndep8yo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the US government has been shut down since early October<\/a>, the Senate is still able to confirm presidential nominees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thanking the president, Isaacman wrote on X that &#8220;it will be an honor&#8221; to serve in the role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The support from the space-loving community has been overwhelming,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rookisaacman\/status\/1985846020283265319\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">he wrote in a long post, external<\/a>, that also acknowledged Nasa scientists and innovators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I am not sure how I earned the trust of so many, but I will do everything I can to live up to those expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sean Duffy, the head of the transport department, has been interim Nasa chief since July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Trump has suddenly changed his mind is unclear, and the president made no mention of the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-245801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}