The Senate on Dec. 17 confirmed Jared Isaacman as NASA’s next administrator.
Isacmaan’s nomination was approved in a bipartisan 67–30 vote.
Democrats voting in favor of the advancement included California’s Sen. Adam Schiff, Arizona’s Senator and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, and the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Washington’s Sen. Maria Cantwell.
“We’re here now with an important mission between this institution and what our national objectives are in going back to the moon,” Cantwell said on the Senate floor ahead of the vote. “I am optimistic that Mr. Isaacman will bring a steady hand and clear vision to NASA. I hope we can partner together, all of us, to achieve this incredible thing for the American people. I know it is time for us to return, and there is much at stake with international competition.”…