This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black.

It is November. It is time for subscriptions and donations to behind the black.

Bob can keep us informed for another two decades about the goings on in space fairing. We do both space

engineering and exploration, altogether space fairing. The next 20 years are very likely to be

monetizing space fairing. We begin, however, with news of big space from the 20th century, NASA. NASA has

founded an administrator. Finally, someone they're satisfied with, their said, and someone the

president is satisfied with. He's a very heroic man, Jared Isaacman, who's flown in SpaceX's capsules. He's spacewalks. Oh, wait.

Bob, didn't we do this story before? Good evening to you. Yes. Do you ever get a deal in a deja vu?

Yes. So there's been a lot of kerfuffle over the last two weeks between Sean Duffy, the industry, and

Derek Eisenman.

Isaac had been nominated by Trump in December.

He got within days of a Senate confirmation vote when Trump withdrew his nomination.

And there's been lots of speculation about why he did that.

But we really do not

know what the reasons were behind the withdrawal of the Isaacman. He had faced hearings. The

Senate seemed to be agreeable to him. Most of the industry seemed to like him because he's a private

entrepreneur, billionaire, who's flown in space twice,

so he knows the industry and cares about it.

So why Trump withdrew the nomination was somewhat of a puzzle.

In the interim, he appointed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to head NASA, and we've

been sitting for five months waiting for another nomination.

There were rumors a few weeks ago that Isaac Lincoln was meeting with Trump again and reconsidering

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