President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA sought to reassure US Senators on Wednesday that he wouldn’t abandon the agency’s multibillion-dollar push to put US boots on the moon in favor of Elon Musk’s longstanding goal of a human mission to Mars.
Billionaire fintech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman tried to walk a political tightrope, arguing the agency can pursue the Mars effort — championed by Musk’s SpaceX and, increasingly, Trump — and America’s Artemis program in parallel.
“We don’t have to make a binary decision of moon versus Mars, or moon has to come first versus Mars,” Isaacman told ...
