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The real tragedy is that the administration withdrew Jared Isaacman's nomination to be NASA administrator. He had bold plans for modernizing NASA and the experi
by mjamesaustin 1y ago
The real tragedy is that the administration withdrew Jared Isaacman's nomination to be NASA administrator. He had bold plans for modernizing NASA and the experience to lead. But he didn't kiss the ring and instead made comments suggesting NASA's budget shouldn't be eviscerated, so his appointment was torpedoed.
- 7e 1y agoA tragedy avoided given his close ties to SpaceX and Musk, which would have been inappropriate at best and corruption at worst.
- wordofx 1y agoJust because Elon knows people doesn’t make it automatic corruption.
- inglor_cz 1y agoThe space industry is still pretty small, insiders naturally know one another and have professional contacts.
- aredox 1y agoRFK jr. is destroying all US public health institutions for less "insiderism" than that.
- adastra22 1y agoHe is a paying customer of SpaceX. Where’s the corruption?
- somenameforme 1y agoThe administrator is definitely one of the weakest links in the system. Bridenstine was looking amazing for NASA then at one point he did a hard 180 and suddenly just became an unthinking Boeing cheerleader, and is largely responsible for the catastrophe that is Boeing's Starliner. And then as soon as he left office he suddenly is in a senior advisory role for some military industrial complex orgs, probably pulling 7 figures for a Zoom call now and then. But Isaacman? Well he's already a billionaire, and highly ideological towards progress in space. Yeah 0 chance he gets appointed.
- adastra22 1y agoStarliner was a catastrophe long before Bridenstine was ever involved.
- somenameforme 1y agoAbsolutely but it never should have been greenlit, allowed to simply skip tests (in flight abort) after essentially failing the pad abort test where only 2 out of 3 parachutes deployed + propellant leak in beyond optimal conditions, and so on. That craft was not even remotely fit for humans and there was far too high a chance that their 'test pilots' lost their lives in something that never should have been allowed to have a human in it to start with. And that all happened under Bridenstine.
- dogtimeimmortal 1y ago[flagged]
- trhway 1y ago> spaceX? It's already practically a monopoly. it is like saying that Michael Phelps had a monopoly in Olympic Golden medals.