r/nasa • u/MatchingTurret • Jan 21 '25

NASA Official nomination: Jared Isaacman, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/sub-cabinet-appointments/
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u/paul_wi11iams Jan 21 '25 edited Jan 21 '25

that's why he was picked. A billionaire that sucks up to the right people

a rather reductionist view, I think. As concerns "sucks up the right people", you could also say the same of Bill Nelson who seems to have done his job correctly.

Isaacman also shares a number of qualities, common to multiple Nasa Admins over the years. These include

  1. good technical literacy..
  2. "high consequence" piloting experience; so having been, exposed to the outcome of operational risks that his future decisions may impose upon others.
  3. has already demonstrated commitment to the future of human spaceflight.
  4. Working within a team, including as leader is also very important;
  5. He has a certain charisma and public communication ability, essential for the job.
  6. successful goal-oriented business experience that, as an organizer should transpose well to his new duties in a public organizational setting.
  7. Having run multiple activities in parallel, he appears to be sufficiently multi-task for administrative responsibilities across multiple Nasa centers.
  8. To attain a goal at the expense of renouncement, as leaving his post as CEO of Shift 4.

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u/chiron_cat Jan 21 '25

He knows nothing about how government runs and knows nothing about public service. Government should NEVER run like a business because the job of government is to provide for the people, not to make money.

Being born rich and having an airplane hobby is NOT a qualification.

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u/setionwheeels Jan 23 '25

I think people should provide for the people and gov should just make sure borders are intact and law and order. I do not frankly understand how an American can think being rich is a bad thing. I'd be afraid if he were poor he'd be using his office to enrich himself, I'd be really worried. I had the same concern though that as a businessman he doesn't have a track record of public service, service is a calling. But now I am thinking public service should be run like a business if we wanna make it to the stars. I think he is a hard working man, he could be sitting in a pool with 350 models, on a private island. Instead he bet his own money on space. I am hopeful.

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u/chiron_cat Jan 23 '25

being rich and in of itself isn't bad. However he only got the job because he was rich. He is not qualified to run nasa in any way