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Although Jared Isaacman is out of course for the position of the NASA administrator, the space enthusiast is always very interested in staying in the game. In a recent appearance, Isaacman revealed that he would always like to continue the launch of robotic missions in space.
This weekend, Isaacman received the National Space Society Wernher Von Braun Prize for the Mission Polaris Dawn funded by private That he directed in September 2024. After his speech, Isaamman spoke of plans, he would have executed as a administrator of NASA, as well as some that the private astronaut is always interested in pursuing outside the agency, SpaceNews reported. It comes less than a month after President Donald Trump withdrew his appointment from Isaacman to direct NASA In a surprising change that left members of the disappointed space community.
In the comments of the press, Isaacman mentioned that one of the objectives he had for NASA was to associate with university organizations on scientific missions. “My priorities would have been leadership in space and the orbital economy and to try to introduce a concept where NASA could help others carry out interesting scientific missions, forcing university organizations to contribute,” he said.
“I may not bother me to try to put this on a test and see if you can finance an interesting robotic mission, just to show that it can be done, and try to get some of the leading university institutions that want to play,” added Isaacman. “So it’s in my mind.”
Isaacman previously financed the private missions of which he was a part. In 2021, he bought the four seats on board Spacecraft SpaceX Dragon for the Mission Inspiration4. As part of the Polaris Dawn program, Isaacman concluded a contract with SpaceX to finance a series of missions, the first of which Launched on September 10, 2024 And withdrew the first commercial space step in history.
Rather than focusing on the private missions led by man, Isaacman is now looking to launch spatial exploration missions. This comes at a time when NASA is faced with serious budgetary cuts that threaten several scientific missions and have put the agency’s ability to continue the space exploration in danger.
THE The so-called lean budget of the current administration Offers a reduction of $ 6 billion to the agency, 24% less than the current budget of $ 24.8 billion in NASA for 2025. As part of the proposal, the agency’s astrophysical budget will fall within half a billion dollars against $ 1.5 billion. Its planetary science budget would drop from $ 2.7 billion to $ 1.9 billion, while its earth science budget would fall to just over a billion dollars against around $ 2.2 billion. Nasa Return of the March sampleA daring quest to bring pieces of March on Earth, is on the blockage as part of the budget proposed in 2026. Other missions, such as Juno de NASA which has explored Jupiter since 2016, faced with cancellation, while the future planned missions, such as Davinci and Veritas, could never be launched.
The appointment of Isaacman to direct NASA was a Welcomed by the space community While the agency fights against pressure to bring humans back to the moon and land astronauts on Mars. If he received the bar, Isaacman would have concentrated on the reusable equipment to launch the Artemis missions on the Moon while abandoning the NASA spatial launch system (SLS), a giant and consumable rocket which made $ 6 billion over-budget, he revealed In a podcast earlier this month.
