It’s a race to the moon – again.
Yesterday (18) was a historic day for American space exploration, as the new NASA administrator, the businessman, pilot and astronaut Jared Isaacman, was confirmed by the US Senate, and Donald J. Trump signed an important Executive Order ENSURING AMERICAN SPACE SUPERIORITY.
Isaacman has had an unusual trajectory, having been appointed, discarded in the context of the fight between Donald J. Trump and SpaceX’s Elon Musk, and successfully re-appointed.
Well it is official now..
I want to again express my sincere appreciation to President Donald J. Trump @POTUS for nominating me to lead NASA, and to the United States Senate–and Chairman Cruz @tedcruz – for their diligence and fairness throughout the confirmation process. I am… pic.twitter.com/T4weWTKUfG
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) December 18, 2025
Today, Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) was sworn in as NASA’s 15th Administrator. At a time of intense competition across the last frontier, he will lead the most talented minds in the nation to ignite the orbital economy, usher in world-changing scientific discovery, and return… pic.twitter.com/qcL66OyOn1
— NASA (@NASA) December 18, 2025
CBS News reported:
“The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator on Wednesday in a 67 to 30 vote after he was nominated to run the agency for the second time last month.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has been serving as the interim NASA administrator, congratulated Isaacman on X, wishing the new administrator ‘success as he begins his tenure and leads NASA as we go back to the Moon in 2028 and beat China’.”
“Isaacman, a 42-year-old businessman, made his fortune in online payment processing and has a personal passion for space. He paid SpaceX an undisclosed amount in February 2021 to launch him and three other civilian flyers on a two-day, 23-hour flight — the first purely commercial, all-civilian American “space tourist” mission. He flew again in September 2024 on the first of three planned SpaceX Polaris missions, logging nearly five days in space on a flight. Isaacman also became the first private citizen to carry out a spacewalk.”
Jared Isaacman has officially been confirmed as NASA Administrator.
Here’s me flying fighter jets with the man himself.
NASA is in great hands.
Let’s go @rookisaacman
pic.twitter.com/n7wGCGJXpt— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 18, 2025
The new Trump Executive Order stipulates that manned U.S. mission to the moon will take place in 2028, with a permanent Lunar base to be finished in 2030.
“’America will return to the moon before our great rival [China], and we will establish an enduring presence to understand and realize the scientific, economic and national security value on the lunar surface’, Isaacman said.”
BREAKING — IT’S OFFICIAL: Jared Isaacman has been SWORN IN as Chief of NASA, and just left the Oval Office with President Trump
You can’t listen to this interview and NOT be excited about America’s future in space.
Isaacman says he and Trump are FULLY aligned, and WILL… pic.twitter.com/jz7nGSBosM
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) December 18, 2025
Read more back from April:
NASA Director Nominee Jared Isaacman on Returning to the Moon versus Focusing On Trip to Mars
