On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trumpselected Isaacman to lead NASA,pending Senate approval.
The tech entrepreneur and pilot served as commander on two private missions to space on board SpaceXs crew capsules.
Thats $6 billion more than initial estimates for the Moon rocket.
Jared Isaacman commanded the Polaris Dawn mission on board a SpaceX Dragon.Polaris Dawn
NASA needs to rebalance its priorities, the report concluded.
It used to be that only NASA could do this stuff, Cowing said.
But now theres three or four generations of people who are building upon NASAs rocket engineering.
Instead, NASA can focus on cosmic exploration and pulling off seemingly impossible endeavors to deep space.
Science and exploration is not a commercial activity.
You dont make money doing that, you gain knowledge and remodel your sense of the world.
Isaacman is more familiar with the commercial side of things, having gone on two private trips to orbit.
Dreier points out, however, that a NASA administrator is still under a layer of federal governance.
The NASA administrator cant just walk in, cancel SLS and award a commercial contract, Dreier said.
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