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The World. I'm John Baster. NASA, the nomination of the Trump administration for the new administrator at NASA is a man named Jared Isaacman, who he is and what he's accomplished and his vision for NASA is critical to understand where we go next in the 21st century.

I welcome Jeff Faust, senior staff writer for Science News,

who's covering the testimony, the confirmation testimony of Mr. Isaacman,

and the remarks, responses, and questions of the senators involved.

Jeff, a very good evening to you.

The atmosphere is rich with possibilities.

Landers on the moon, landers on Mars, great expectations of man and unmanned

events in the offing.

Mr. Isaacman is unusually prepared, having flown two private missions on Dragon capsule thanks to SpaceX, one of them in which he was a space walker.

And also, he's not only wealthy, he's generous and philanthropic and young and eager.

What was the general impression he gave in his confirmation hearings?

Good evening to you, Jeff.

Good evening, John.

I think the key takeaway from the confirmation hearing was that Isaacman came in and sort of reassured senators that many of the key initiatives that are ongoing, like the Artemis campaign of missions to return humans to the moon, would continue in something like their current form, at least in the near future.

He would not go in and make sweeping immediate changes to Artemis.

Likewise, he would keep operating the International Space Station

through the end of the decade as currently planned and not retire it immediately as Elon Musk,

for example, has suggested doing. So I think the key aspect of the hearing was to go into the

senators and tell them that a lot of what they have been supporting and funding in recent years

will continue while keeping an eye on making perhaps bigger changes down the road.

I'm puzzled by this apparent tension about moon, Mars, Mars, Moon.

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