The Senate confirmed Isaacman after Trump reversed an earlier withdrawal. ・He assumes leadership as NASA faces budget pressure and China competition. ・Isaacman has outlined a faster, more commercially driven approach.

By May, that uncertainty turned to dread as the administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, one that featured steep cuts at NASA and other science agencies. That’s where Casey Dreier of The Planetary Society stepped in.

US lawmakers confirmed fintech billionaire and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to run NASA on Wednesday, ending a prolonged and whipsawing nomination process that had left the space agency without a permanent administrator for most of the year.

"These confirmations have been given to us in writing, so this is a very important step." BREMEN, Germany — NASA will help Europe get its long-delayed Mars life-hunting ExoMars rover off the ground, even though President Donald Trump's proposed NASA ...

Jared Isaacman, a pilot and financial tech billionaire, has commanded two groundbreaking spaceflights, including leading the first private spacewalk. But his most remarkable flying has occurred over the last year. And on Wednesday, he stuck the landing by earning formal Senate approval to become NASA’s 15th administrator.

Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the committee’s chair, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), its Democratic minority leader, both voted to confirm Isaacman. Though members of both parties had questioned his candidacy, Democrats levied more scrutiny.

(CNN) — A rare spectacle played out on Capitol Hill as Jared Isaacman — the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Elon Musk ally who has been tapped to serve as NASA administrator — faced a second confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on ...

ESA will have 3.787 billion Euros ($4.39 billion) for its science project in the coming budgetary period, up 600 million Euros ($696 million) compared to the 2022 budget. The member states also pledged an additional 328 million Euros ($380 million) to ESA's PRODEX program, which develops innovative science experiments and technologies.