Future first husband will give priority to Mars
Billionaire Jared Isaacman at the hearing in front of the committee in the Senate for the post of new head of the US Space Agency Nasa, he emphasized that, if confirmed, he will give priority to US efforts to land the human crew on Mars. However, as he added, he will not abandon the current plans in the Artemis program, which assume that the astronauts will land on the moon in 2027.
« Nasa is an exceptional agency that can do almost impossible, » he stressed. « In accordance with the president’s vision, we can outline the path to Mars to return to the moon before the Chinese come there, and to design the space economy and to do a variety of research, » said the 42-year-old, who fined two of his own private expanses into space with SpaceX vessels.
Before the committee on trade, science and transport, he said that he also wanted humanity to return to the moon, but it bothers him that the price of this venture is so high, and he also wants to accelerate the expeditions. It is currently predicted that the crew around the moon (without landing) would fly next year, a year later a landing would follow. On the moon, astronauts would build a permanent base for research, all of which would be a springboard for Mars, but the landing on the adjacent planet would not happen before the end of this decade. He also wants China on the moon, which plans to land there by the end of the decade.
Isaacman is a close friend of the founder of SpaceX and Trump’s advisor Elona Musk. At the hearing, he acknowledged that he was not a typical representative that the public imagines for himself. « I am mostly apolitical, I’m not a scientist, and I have never worked for NASA, but I don’t see it as disadvantages, » said the billionaire, who first flew into space in 2021, and last year. Isaacman would become the youngest leader of the American Space Agency, just during major changes in the space industry. Cards are now mixing smaller startup companies in the development of both rockets and satellites.
