Commander Jared Isaacman of Polaris Daybreak, a personal human spaceflight mission, speaks at a press convention on the Kennedy Area Heart in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. August 19, 2024.
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President Donald Trump has met with Jared Isaacman to debate one other nomination to steer NASA, a supply conversant in the talks confirmed to CNBC’s Morgan Brennan.
Isaacman, who has shut ties with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, was on the White Home in September for Trump’s dinner for tech energy gamers. Musk didn’t attend.
After a fiery back-and-forth between Musk and Trump over authorities spending, the president pulled Isaacman’s nomination for the put up, saying he was a “blue blooded Democrat, who had by no means contributed to a Republican earlier than.”
“I additionally thought it inappropriate {that a} very shut buddy of Elon, who was within the Area Enterprise, run NASA, when NASA is such a giant a part of Elon’s company life,” Trump wrote in a Reality Social put up on June 6.
Trump named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as interim head of NASA in July.
Isaacman, who declined to remark, was initially nominated in December to steer the house company.
Bloomberg was first to report on the conferences between Isaacman and Trump.
Isaacman is a seasoned house traveller, having led two personal spaceflights with SpaceX in 2021 and 2024. Shift4 has invested $27.5 million in SpaceX, in line with a 2021 submitting.
Isaacman stepped down as CEO from Shift4, the funds firm he based in 1999 on the age of 16, after his nomination was pulled, and now serves as govt chairman.
“Even figuring out the end result, I would do it once more,” Isaacman wrote in a letter to traders asserting the change.
It now seems to be like he will get to do it once more, with tensions between Musk and Trump cooling within the months since.