{"id":311876,"date":"2025-11-05T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311876"},"modified":"2025-11-05T11:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:06:55","slug":"trump-renominates-astronaut-jared-isaacman-as-nasa-administrator-after-may-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=311876","title":{"rendered":"Trump Renominates Astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator After May Withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump renominated billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator on Monday, reversing his earlier withdrawal in May 2025 due to Isaacman&#8217;s past donations to Democrats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaacman, who commanded the first all-civilian orbital mission in 2021 and led the first commercial spacewalk in 2024, received praise from Trump for his space expertise amid U.S. competition with China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The space community, including Elon Musk and outgoing acting administrator Sean Duffy, expressed support for the nomination, which now awaits Senate confirmation to advance NASA&#8217;s Artemis lunar missions and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaacman, who commanded the first all-civilian orbital mission in 2021 and led the first commercial spacewalk in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":188437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7862,202],"tags":[18664,11],"class_list":["post-311876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-nasa","tag-jared-isaacman","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311877,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311876\/revisions\/311877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}