Jared Isaacman has cleared another hurdle on his way to becoming the next NASA Administrator after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation gave the billionaire SpaceX customer the nod.

It is the second time Isaacman has reached this point . President Donald Trump abruptly withdrew Isaacman's nomination for the role earlier in 2025, but has since reinstated it.

Isaacman appeared before the committee last week, expressing concern about capability gaps, competition with other nations, and squeezing the maximum value out of each dollar allocated to NASA.

NASA's budget is set to be cut dramatically in Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. A document penned by Isaacman around the time of his first nomination in April, dubbed "Project Athena," has recently begun ci

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