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Space

Trump NASA Nominee: ‘The Second Space Age Has Only Just Begun’

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, December 4th, 2024

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Trump NASA Nominee: ‘The Second Space Age Has Only Just Begun’

Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments and mission commander of Polaris Dawn, addresses U.S. Air Force Academy cadets on Feb. 23rd last year (U.S. Air Force Photo)

President-elect Trump on Wednesday nominated 41-year-old Jared Isaacman, a private astronaut/pilot and the billionaire founder of the Shift4 [FOUR] payments processing company, as the next administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Isaacman commanded the first private spaceflight mission, the SpaceX Inspiration4, in September 2021, and Polaris Dawn in September this year. "On my last mission to space, my crew and I traveled farther from Earth than anyone in over half a century," Isaacman wrote in an X…

Congress

HASC Bill Would Allow Air Force To Buy More Than 267 F-15EXs

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill would allow the Air Force to buy more than 267 F-15EX fighters by Boeing [BA] and would extend the […]

Budget

Defense Bill Tries To Block Foreign Shipbuilding, Adds $1 Billion For Second DDG

The final version of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill included two amendments pushed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) that restrict procuring Navy warships […]

Congress

Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

As the Pentagon looks to refill inventories of weapons used in Iran and elsewhere, replacements may not be one for one but instead mark a new portfolio mix, according to […]

Congress

HASC Approves $1.15 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA With ‘Right To Repair’ Reform

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has approved its $1.15 trillion version of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with the panel moving to adopt a bipartisan […]