NASA will give priority to sending American astronauts to March. President Trump’s candidate will inform the Space Agency for the Senate Committee on Wednesday.
The candidate is Jared Ishaqan, CEO of the payment processing company on payment payments, a partner close to Elon Musk, founder of Spacex. As a person who led two special trips to astronauts to orbit, it, if confirmed, brings to NASA and its budget of $ 25 billion, a more consistent perspective with the latest air space companies such as Spacex.
The confirmation session was scheduled to start at 10 am. You can watch it in the video player above.
In an opening statement, it was issued before the hearing by the Senate Trade, Science and Technology Committee, ISAACMAN is expected to say, “We will activate the culture of the first task in NASA” with the aim of sending astronauts to Mars.
While Mars has long been upgraded as a destination in the end of the faceflight programs, the current NASA focus is the international space station in low -Earth orbit and Artemis program, which was announced in Mr. Trump’s first state and seeks to return astronauts to the moon.
Mr. Isaacman will witness that NASA will not give up the moon, but it will treat it as a step for Mars.
“Along the way, we will inevitably have the capabilities to return to the moon and determine the benefits of scientific, economic and national security of maintaining the presence of the moon,” he says, according to the amended text from its opening notes.
Mr. Isaacman will say that the start of a vibrant economy in orbit around the Earth and the increase in the rate of scientific discoveries of NASA will be other goals for NASA.
The Esaacman confirmation session is likely to provide some clarity for the future direction of NASA, which, such as many federal agencies, may experience uncertainty and rumors. The Trump administration has canceled NASA’s office for the President of Scientists and another office that has advised about politics and strategy, but has so far held a widespread type of workers and sometimes chaos that has swept many other federal agencies.
Mr. Musk, the main adviser to Mr. Trump, said that the moon program is “distraction” And that the international satellite station has served its purposes and it must be I was thrown within two years.
Mr. Musk’s opinions contradict those Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Last month, the leaders of the Senate Trade Committee presented a draft law, and the Congress put in place what Congress wanted to do NASA, stressed the continuity and the ability to predict.
Mr. ISAACMAN is expected to face questions about the fate of the space launch system, which is the big new missile that spent NASA billions of dollars on the development of more than a decade.
In a post in X in October, Mr. Isaacman described the SLS missile as “very expensive” and an example of the traditional NASA programs that were canceled because it has finished so much budget and behind the schedule.
But SLS for Artemis II, which will take four astronauts on a journey around the moon without falling next year, was already built. The first landing of astronauts on the moon will occur during Artemis III, which will use another SLS missile.
The redesign of these tasks with another missile is likely to delay years of delay. On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican in Texas, who heads the Trade Committee, Posted on X He met Mr. Asman and described him as “committed to returning to American astronauts to the moon as quickly as possible so that we can develop the necessary techniques to go to Mars.”
For many years, NASA was led by people with experience in NASA or in the traditional aviation industry. NASA officials have not been commensurate with this template, but rather former politicians. During his first administration, Mr. Trump Jim Bridinstein, a former member of Congress from Oklahoma, chose Joseph Baiden Bill Nelson, a former Senate member of Florida.
ISAACMAN nomination breaks tradition in different ways. He did not work in NASA and did not have a traditional spaceground.
But in February 2021, he announced that he funded a special task called Inspiration4. With its crew riding in the dragon capsule in Spacex, the task was the first in which no one was on a professional astronaut.
The crew was launched in Madar in September 2021, and spent four days in space.
Mr. Isaacman last year continued with another trip to Orbit, called Polaris Dawn. This task – cooperation with Spacex – tested new technologies including a new space suit used during the first space by private astronauts.
I was supposed to follow two additional Polaris tasks, but they would be suspended if the NASA captain is ISAACMAN.