Jared Isaacman, a self-made billionaire, founder of Shift4 Payments and commercial astronaut, has been renominated to lead NASA, six months after President Donald Trump pulled his original nomination.

There is speculation that the president pulled Isaacman’s nomination in May due to personal disagreements he was having with then-DOGE head Elon Musk.

Musk and Isaacman have worked with each other for several years, and they share the same ambitious vision for the national space agency. The nomination pull preceded Trump and Musk’s very public breakup by five days.

In an interview last month with former Navy Seal Shawn Ryan, Isaacman said the pull didn’t have to do with his own ability to lead NASA. “I think that there was a very widely covered falling out between some pretty important

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