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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was withdrawing the nomination of Elon Musk, a close associate of Elon Musk to lead the space agency NASA.
Trump said last December, before returning to the office, he said that he wanted the online payment to be operated by the entrepreneur and the first private astronaut NASA to serve as the next head of NASA.
But on Saturday, he said on his true social platform that “after a deep review of the former associations, I am withdrawing the nomination of Jreds Isaqman by it as the head of NASA.”
“I will soon announce a new nominee, who will align the mission, and put America into space first.”
Earlier on Saturday, The New York Times reported that the step was coming, which was quoted by anonymous sources as saying that the President had decided after donating money to the prominent Democrats to Isaacman.
Asked about that report, the White House told the AFP in an email that “it was necessary that NASA’s next leader is in full alignment with President Trump’s first agenda.”
“NASA’s administrators will help take humanity into space and execute the bold mission of President Trump’s bold mission to place the American flag on the planet,” said this.
The enrollment shakeup appears to be a snub of billionaire Musk, who stepped back from Trump’s so -called government efficiency on Friday.
Musk allegedly advocated the President for Isaacman, who has got significant business behavior with Musk’s SpaceX, raising questions of the potential struggles of interest, to get the top NASA job.
As soon as the news came out, Musk insisted on the X that “it is rare to find someone so competent and good-arthed”.
The 42-year-old founder and CEO of SHIFT4 payment has emerged as a prominent person in the commercial spaceflight through his high-profile cooperation with Spacex.
He did during the first spacewalk, holding the outer part of the spacecraft, to gaze out of the space of a crew out of the dragon of a crew last September, during the first spacewalk carried out by non-professional astronauts.
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