Trump's NASA pick says his future SpaceX mission will be on hold

12/12/2024 6:09

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA

administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday

that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon

Musk's SpaceX "may wind up on hold for a moment," as he prepares

to enter government service leading the U.S. space agency.



"The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a

question mark at the moment," Isaacman, who was tapped by Trump

last week to lead NASA, said in response to a question at the

Spacepower 2024 conference in Orlando. "It may wind up on hold

for a moment."



Isaacman, a private astronaut and billionaire founder of

payment processing company Shift4 Payments, owns the

Polaris program, a series of private missions on SpaceX vehicles

that has made him a key associate of Musk.