President Trump announced on Wednesday that Transport Secretary Scene Dafi would temporarily lead the national aeronautics and space administration when Mr. Trump withdrew an Elon Musk-Linked Entry as his pick to lead the space agency.
President praised Dafi on Wednesday True social Post, Writing: “He will ever be a great leader of the more important space agency, even if only for a short time.”
“Respected to accept this mission. Time to handle space. Let’s launch,” Xe,
NASA is currently led by Janet Petro, a former leader of the Kennedy Space Center, who has served as the agency’s acting administrator since the beginning of Mr. Trump’s tenure. Petro state is not clear; A NASA spokesperson said the agency had no further details.
Mr. Trump Initially chosen The billionaire private astronauts jarad Isaacman to lead NASA, but the President drew his nomination a few days before the Senate had a confirmation vote, citing the “intensive review of the former associations”.
Last weekend, president Extended on this issueIsaqman was recommended by Kasturi to him “and, while I felt his friend was very good, I wondered knowing that he was a blue blood democrat, who had never contributed to Republican before.”
Federal Election Commission Record show Isaacman has donated the Democratic Congress candidates and groups, although they have also given some money to Republican.
“I also thought inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in a space business, used to run NASA, when NASA is such a large part of Elon’s corporate life,” Mr. Trump wrote in a true social post later in the end of last week, which is mentioned by Musk’s company Spacex, which is. NASA contract,
Isaacman The first spacex has flew on rockets As a private astronaut. X, in Monday’s post on Isaman Described himself As “relatively relatively relatively” and a “correct medium”, and said that he revealed his political donation before his nomination. He also said that he only knows “[s] Elon professionally “and SpaceX has no equity, but he is” for the first time to praise what he and his companies have completed. ,
A few days after the nomination of Isaacman, A Quarrel between Mr. Trump and Musk -An ontime trump associate, who served as the cost-in-in-chief of the administration under the title of the government’s efficiency department-exploded in the scene of publicity. The attacks between the President and the richest man in the world have focused on a large beautiful bill act on a large scale, a large -scale spent package that has criticized Musk.
Dafi is temporarily taking to NASA at an important time for the agency, which aims Return astronauts on the moon And, eventually, Land on Mars for the first time ever.
Dafi is the Trump Administration Officer who served as a dual-ghrna. Marco Rubio serves as both the state secretary and acting National Security Advisor, and is the acting head of the National Archives and Record Administration.
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