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“We don’t confirm Schumer donors in this administration,” said a source close to the Trump team — referencing the quiet but decisive move to pull billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman from consideration as the head of NASA under the second Trump Administration. Our source requested anonymity to speak candidly about personnel decisions within the administration. Isaacman — a close ally of Elon Musk, SpaceX collaborator, private astronaut, and founder of Shift4 — was under serious consideration for a high-level appointment. But his name was withdrawn after campaign finance records revealed over $200,000 in donations to prominent Democratic politicians, committees, and super...

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked President Joe Biden on Sunday for neglecting to praise his aerospace company's historic, all-civilian mission to orbit. Musk recently said he would prefer to stay out of politics. But Sunday’s quip — which alluded to a Trump taunt about Biden — belied his frustration with the White House. After SpaceX completed a historic, private spaceflight on Saturday, CEO Elon Musk took a pot shot at President Joe Biden who had yet to remark on the company's and the civilian flight crew's accomplishments. One of Musk's 60 million followers on the social networking platform...

The quartet of newly minted citizen astronauts comprising the SpaceX Inspiration4 mission were due to splash down in the Atlantic off Florida on Saturday, completing a three-day flight of the first all-civilian crew ever launched into Earth orbit. To prepare for atmospheric re-entry and return to Earth, the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle completed two rocket "burns" on Friday to lower its altitude and line up the capsule's trajectory with the targeted landing site. The Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, is scheduled to parachute into the sea around 7 p.m. Eastern time, shortly before sunset, according to SpaceX, the private rocketry company...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: President Trump pulls his nomination of Jared Isaacman for NASA administrator. 8:48 PM · May 31, 2025

President-elect Donald Trump issued a slew of nominations on Wednesday, including for positions at NASA and the Army. Peter Navarro was tapped on Wednesday to serve as his Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. Among those nominated was Daniel P. Driscoll for Secretary of the Army. Trump wrote that "as a former Soldier, Investor, and Political Advisor, Dan brings a powerful combination of experiences to serve as a disruptor and change agent." Driscoll completed Army Ranger school, and was deployed with the 10th Mountain Division as a Cavalry Scout Platoon Leader in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Following his service,...

Orbiting Earth on board Dragon, the Polaris Dawn crew talked with families of Folds of Honor, an organization providing educational scholarships to spouses and children of America's fallen and disabled military service-members and first responders.UPDATE! Polaris Dawn Crew Calls Military Families From Space | 9:45The Launch Pad | 419K subscribers | 128 views | September 11, 2024

A New Hampshire man set to go to space will now have to wait until at least Friday.The SpaceX Polaris Dawn, to be piloted by Scott Poteet, was delayed last week, and unfavorable weather conditions led to those delays.The company had originally received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch early Wednesday morning, with a backup date of Thursday morning, but according to the FAA, the launch will now wait until early Friday morning.

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - SpaceX's attempt at the first ever private spacewalk next week will be a test of trailblazing equipment, including slim spacesuits and a cabin with no airlock, in one of the riskiest missions yet for Elon Musk's space company. A billionaire entrepreneur, a retired military fighter pilot and two SpaceX employees are poised to launch on Tuesday aboard a modified Crew Dragon craft, before embarking on a 20-minute spacewalk 434 miles (700 km) into space two days later.... Far outside the protective bubble of Earth's atmosphere, the electronics and shielding on Crew Dragon and spacesuits will...

The unusual silence from the crew led many to believe it was due to the private nature of the mission. Or was SpaceX’s leadership interfering? Or did a toilet malfunction render the interior of the craft too horrifying for public consumption? But now, two days after the capsule returned safely back down to Earth, we may finally have an answer from the mission commander himself. “The actual answer is that we only had so many ground station passes to transmit video,” commander and billionaire funder of the expedition Jared Isaacman wrote in a early Monday morning tweet, responding to Berger’s...