{"id":324440,"date":"2025-12-01T17:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T17:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T17:30:06","slug":"lehigh-valley-billionaire-astronaut-in-running-to-be-nasa-administrator-heading-to-capitol-hill-wednesday-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/324440\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley billionaire, astronaut in running to be NASA administrator heading to Capitol Hill Wednesday | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Local astronaut and businessman Jared Isaacman, who&#8217;s once again in the running to lead NASA, will be back on the hot seat on Capitol Hill this week.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll appear before a Senate committee on Wednesday as part of the confirmation process.<\/p>\n<p>This is a repeat of what Isaacman went through in the spring, but then President Trump withdrew his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Trump re-nominated Isaacman in October.<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman is the founder of Lehigh County based payment processing company Shift4.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also commanded two private, all-civilian space missions that he funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8211; Local astronaut and businessman Jared Isaacman, who&#8217;s once again in the running to lead NASA, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[83692,75221,4762,79,193],"class_list":["post-324440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-lehigh-county","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}