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Today, civilian astronaut Jared Isaacman was nominated by President-elect Trump. The SLS is now really on the chopping block with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk running the new Department Of Government Efficiency, or "DOGE."
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Apparently no one has created a Wikipedia page for Jared Isaacman... I expect that will be corrected soon...
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Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He was nominated by President-elect...
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operated by SpaceX on behalf of Jared Isaacman. During the mission, she completed the first commercial spacewalk with Isaacman, becoming the youngest person...
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private crewed spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman, the first of three planned missions in the Polaris program. Launched...
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administrator since May 3, 2021. Entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman has been the nominee for NASA administrator since December 4, 2024....
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Polaris program
entrepreneur Jared Isaacman. Building on his experience as commander of the Inspiration4 mission—the first all-civilian spaceflight—Isaacman contracted...
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in 2024, a privately funded human spaceflight operated by SpaceX for Jared Isaacman. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Outdoor education at the...
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Isaacman
lawyer Allen Isaacman, U.S. historian Jared Isaacman, U.S. businessman, world-record pilot Sonia Bunting (1922–2001, born Sonia Beryl Isaacman), South African...
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a private human spaceflight mission operated by SpaceX on behalf of Jared Isaacman. During the September 2024 mission, she served as the onboard medical...
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Jared
American filmmaker Jared Heyman, American entrepreneur Jared Hudgins (born 1988), American football player and coach Jared Isaacman (born 1983), American...
25 KB (2,969 words) - 01:01, 19 November 2024Shift4
Pennsylvania. The company, founded in 1999 by the then 16-year-old Jared Isaacman, processes payments for over 200,000 businesses in the retail, hospitality...
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all-civilian crew to fly an orbital space mission. On September 12, 2024, Jared Isaacman and Sarah Gillis performed the first commercial spacewalk during the...
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Draken International
provided by a fleet of former military aircraft. Draken was established by Jared Isaacman at Lakeland Linder International Airport in January 2012. In 2015, the...
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for Secretary of the Army; tech entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman for Administrator of NASA; former CEO of the U.S. International Development...
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human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on 16 September 2021...
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Political appointments of the second Trump administration
Retrieved 2024-12-04. Ventura, Juliann (2024-12-04). "Trump selects Jared Isaacman to lead NASA". The Hill. Retrieved 2024-12-04. "Trump Taps Frank Bisignano...
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physician assistant and commercial astronaut. She joined billionaire Jared Isaacman on SpaceX's first private spaceflight Inspiration4, which launched on...
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first private sector-financed EVA on September 12, 2024. Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis briefly ventured outside a Dragon capsule...
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distance was reached at 00:21 UTC on 15 April 1970. Polaris Dawn crew Jared Isaacman, Scott Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon fired their Crew Dragon Resilience's...
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original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022 – via Twitter. "Jared Isaacman is taking St. Jude on an 'epic adventure' to space, but it will be grounded...
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launch Axiom Mission 4 to the @Space_Station" (Tweet) – via Twitter. "Jared Isaacman, who led the first all-private astronaut mission to orbit, has commissioned...
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Jared Isaacman
Jared Isaacman (born 11 February 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder of Draken International
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My first search for a Wikipedia page for Jared Isaacman was not successful. The second search succeeded...
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Jared Taylor Isaacman is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump in December 2024 to serve as the next administrator of NASA. Wikipedia
Born: 1983 (age 41 years), Union
Spouse: Monica Isaacman
Net worth: 1.7 billion USD (2024) Forbes
Education: Ridge High School, William Annin Middle School, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach
Organizations founded: Shift4, Draken International, Harbortouch
Height: 6′ 0″
Children: 2
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Isaacman personally flies his own MiG 29, and is a 3000+ hour pilot; his former company, Draken, International, operated a fleet primarily consisting of Czech-built L-39 Albatross jets that were available to our military to serve as surrogates for enemy fighters. Last year there was some presence at the Bozeman, Montana International Airport during the training for the Polaris Dawn mission.
Hopefully, Isaacman will be speedily confirmed. If so--he will undoubtedly OK an attempt to re-boost and repair the Hubble Space Telescope, which he had previously offered to do as Polaris Mission 2--at no expense to NASA or the US Government.
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Here's Ellie in Space's take and interview:
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For OldFart1939 re #6
Thank you for the link to Ellie's video.
I found a moment when a list prepared by (I think) the Angry Astronaut gets air time...
https://youtu.be/v3NbgyK0j4Y?t=418
The URL above is ** supposed ** to start at the point where that page is shown.
Predictions seem reasonable to me.
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I sincerely hope that NASA Director Isaacman is able to fast-track the process of returning Americans to the moon ahead of the Chinese, and that all American aerospace / defense contractors do their utmost to maintain the flight schedule of the Artemis Program.
However less than ideal, the only remaining impediments to Artemis landing on the moon are development of the lander itself and finishing flight testing of the super heavy lift launch vehicle required to reliably propel the capsule and lander to the moon. We can work with the space suit, life support, and surface mobility tech that we presently have, while working with industry to devise better solutions.
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NASA Director Nominee Isaacman is reported to have flown his own jet to Washington.
This topic is available if a NewMars member catches a news item that would help us keep up with developments.
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I predict massive changes in NASA's space agenda under the new guy. I rather suspect that SLS, Starliner, and maybe even Orion, are going to go away, and sooner than anyone suspects. Artemis as we know it will also go away soon, but it will not vanish. It will continue as something embodied very differently, but more than "flags-and-footprints", to counter the Chinese. The name may change.
Meanwhile, Mars will become a minimal "flags-and-footprints" mission, because Trump is uninterested in anything but gaining Earthly wealth and power. That plus Musk's deserved public unpopularity will drive the wedge between him and Musk rather deeper. I also predict Musk will no longer be part of Trump's administration in a year or so.
As near as I can tell, Musk's public image is so bad (and deservedly so) that Tesla's prospects are pretty much finished. Although it takes time for the huge dead dinosaur to fall over. SpaceX may survive this, if Gwynn Shotwell can keep doing the right things without being over-ruled by Musk. Tesla has no Shotwell, so they have no chance. SpaceX does have a chance, but it's not a "sure thing". Musk is Trump's "sacrificial lamb" to avoid taking all the blame himself for all the chaos he is causing.
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"There is nothing as expensive as a dead crew, especially one dead from a bad management decision"
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GW,
SpaceX may survive this, if Gwynn Shotwell can keep doing the right things without being over-ruled by Musk.
Can you tell us what "wrong things" Tesla has done, as a company, to deserve having their dealerships firebombed?
Can you tell us how any "wrong things" that Tesla may or may not have done, according to you, makes it okay for random people who happen to own Teslas, to have their cars vandalized on the street or at their homes or when they go to the store to buy groceries?
I think the left blames anyone and everyone but themselves for their own psychotic and anti-social behavior.
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The Tesla dealerships and owners did nothing to deserve what I consider to be domestic terrorism. Musk's atrocious behavior is the cause of those radicals acting out.
I would add that there have been a lot of Tesla owners who are appalled at Musk, and selling their vehicles. They clearly do not want to be associated in any way with him.
This is not "the left" as you termed it, but a small radical faction, similar to the right wing radicals that also killed people and wrought damage at various rallies, too. It is radicals of either stripe that are the "bad guys".
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GW,
Can you identify any specific behavior of Elon Musk that you find atrocious?
Can you opine as to why radical leftists decided that the most appropriate response to Elon Musk's behavior, even if it was atrocious by your definition, was to then go out and destroy the property of their fellow leftists and to assault them for doing business with one of their fellow leftists?
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Please move discussion of politics to one of the more appropriate categories.
I am hoping to attract more members to the forum, and discussion of atrocious behavior by individual human beings are not a good fit for this topic.
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Quite right, Tom.
As for the topic, I finished and posted the ballistic coefficient study that Bob Clark was interested in, over at my "exrocketman" site. It is titled "Ballistic Coefficient Study for Earth Entry", and dated 4-12-2025. Top of the stack right now. It has 6 figures in it, which precluded my posting it here. The one with the surface temperature and pressure results that Bob needs is the last one. I emailed him to let him know it was posted.
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