Donald Trump Pick Sends Them Into Orbit
New NASA management
Those who actually want to see humans leave the planet are thrilled that NASA is under new management. The high paid bureaucrats mismanaging the agency now are throwing temper tantrums.
Wealthy tech mogul Jared Isaacman has personally “traveled to space on private missions.” That doesn’t make him a rocket scientist, the bureaucrats whine in a snit. He has no experience with either government or academia. That means he hasn’t been subjected to their liberal indoctrination.
Instead, he’s a technical engineer who knows that there are right answers and wrong answers. Only the right ones build functional machinery.
There are no participation prizes for math that doesn’t add up properly. NASA has been in the news with one failure after another lately. All of them can be blamed on bad engineering.
Most presidents, beltway Democrats gasp, tap the “pool of scientists, engineers, academics or public servants” for NASA appointment. We all know that Trump is a whole lot different from most.
Apparently, Elon Musk recommended him. “Isaacman’s association with the space world, however, derives mostly from his extensive partnership with SpaceX, as a customer and collaborator.”
Conflict of interest
The seeming conflict of interest regarding Elon Musk is nothing but smoke and mirrors. NASA can’t stand the SpaceX CEO and member of Trump’s inner circle because Musk has been doing their job for them. He’s currently in the process of rescuing two stranded astronauts from the space station.
NASA’s capsule wasn’t space worthy enough to get them home. That’s because they contracted the job of designing it to Boeing. Musk will now be co-chair of a panel on government efficiency which should have interesting things to say about that contract.
Even liberals at CNN can see that “NASA is relying on the commercial sector — and SpaceX specifically — more than ever.” Musk knows Isaacman real well and loves working together with him.
The smarter professionals in the industry “hailed Isaacman’s selection” as a “perfect pick.” Isaac Arthur serves as president of the nonprofit National Space Society. He issued a rousing endorsement.
Isaacman, he writes, “brings a wealth of experience in entrepreneurial enterprise as well as unique knowledge in working with both NASA and SpaceX.” That’s a good thing.
It’s “a perfect combination as we enter a new era of increased cooperation” between the agency and commercial space ventures. Former astronaut Garrett Reisman calls Isaacman an “excellent choice” who will “push NASA to go further and faster.” The next four years at NASA, he adds, “are going to be real interesting!“
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