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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to become President Donald Trump's NASA administrator, making an advocate of Mars missions and a former associate of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk the space agency's 15th leader.
"We are faced with another space race," Jared Isaacman, NASA's new administrator, told NBC News after he was sworn in on Thursday.
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Jared Isaacman pledges NASA salary to Space Camp, hoping to inspire future explorers
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Jared Isaacman, the billionaire entrepreneur and private astronaut who was sworn in Thursday as NASA's new Administrator, announced that he will donate his government salary to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Space Camp program.