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Senate Confirms Jared Isaacman as Youngest NASA Chief

Senate Confirms Jared Isaacman as Youngest NASA Chief

Senate Confirms Jared Isaacman as Youngest NASA Chief
Above: Jared Isaacman in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on Dec. 3, 2025. Image credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The Spin

NASA finally has a leader who builds rather than bureaucratizes. Isaacman brings entrepreneurial speed and real spaceflight experience to an agency that's been stuck in a decades-long committee-driven decline. America needs someone who treats Mars as a deadline, not a dream, and understands this is the most important technological race since the Cold War.

Handing NASA to a SpaceX customer creates a direct pipeline of federal dollars to Musk's company while sidelining climate science. This billionaire with zero experience managing large organizations will prioritize nationalist spectacle over actual scientific missions. The merger of government and capital is textbook fascism dressed up as innovation.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 50% chance that NASA will next land astronauts on the moon by Sept. 28, 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.

NASA finally has a leader who builds rather than bureaucratizes. Isaacman brings entrepreneurial speed and real spaceflight experience to an agency that's been stuck in a decades-long committee-driven decline. America needs someone who treats Mars as a deadline, not a dream, and understands this is the most important technological race since the Cold War.

Handing NASA to a SpaceX customer creates a direct pipeline of federal dollars to Musk's company while sidelining climate science. This billionaire with zero experience managing large organizations will prioritize nationalist spectacle over actual scientific missions. The merger of government and capital is textbook fascism dressed up as innovation.


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