During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Jared Isaacman, President Donald Trump‘s pick for NASA administrator, said he would not allow Elon Musk to influence his work as head of the space agency.
Isaacman testified before the Senate Commerce Committee that he would not allow Musk, the SpaceX CEO who has helmed Department of Government Efficiency efforts in the White House, to exert control or outsize influence over the space agency.
“My loyalty is to this nation, the space agency, and their world-changing mission,” Isaacman said in response to a question from Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI). “I have to imagine in the 1960s, Administrator [James] Webb would have taken photo calls and welcomed the input from all the various contractors that were contributing to the endeavor.”
“But they’re the contractors; NASA is
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