Musk-Recruited NASA Head Pushes Nuclear Agenda Tied to SpaceX

Musk-Recruited NASA Head Pushes Nuclear Agenda Tied to SpaceX

🚀Share this on X and Bluesky!In November 2024, Elon Musk called his friend and business partner Jared Isaacman to ask him if he would lead NASA. A year and a half later, the agency had a new administrator, a new space nuclear strategy, and plans to develop the exact reactor technology that SpaceX says it needs to colonize Mars. The arrangement is another clear example of private business interests shaping federal science and technology policy. …