Interesting choice...

And one that is having some interesting reactions!

Donald Trump has once again broken the mold and has named a billionaire entrepreneur, Jared Isaacman, to head the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Isaacman financed and flew two missions on Elon Musk's Space X Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule. He started his company, Shift4 Payments, in 1999 after dropping out of high school. He sounds like an anachronism, a throwback to NASA's glory days.

“With the support of President Trump, I can promise you this: We will never again lose our ability to journey to the stars and never settle for second place,” he said. He added, “Americans will walk on the Moon and Mars, and in doing so, we will make life better here on Earth.”

Now that's more like it.

Full article HERE from PJ Media.

This is, IMHO, a very interesting pick for head of NASA. Isaacman has put his money and his life where is mouth is, ponying up for two missions, and going into space himself.

And he's an entrepreneur, so his approach is going to be radically different than the go along/get along/toe the administration line of the previous administrator who was given the job as a political sop.

Space is inherently dangerous, there are few if any second chances, and the lead time for an astronaut to actually 'get' a mission was a minimum of 2 years. I'm betting we'll see that change, especially if SpaceX is used for launches.

The ISS times out in 2030, so I'm pretty sure a new design/set of agreements will also be on the agenda, along with at least some kind of 'new' shuttle, different from the Dragon capsule, simply because of the need for larger cargos coming in the future.

And apparently, the 'man on the ground' interviews with current NASA folks are positive, so maybe they are/will be happy to get back to actual science and development and stop playing the DEI game!

What say you???