Overview
- The White House has not yet formally sent the renomination to the Senate, leaving the timeline for a hearing and vote uncertain.
- Isaacman says the plan does not direct cancellations of SLS or Gateway and denies any intent to close NASA centers.
- Project Athena outlines priorities to streamline bureaucracy, expand astronaut and lunar missions, buy commercial Earth-observation data, and invest in AI and nuclear propulsion.
- Space industry figures broadly welcomed the renomination this week, praising the prospect of clearer direction even as debate over the plan continues.
- Conflict-of-interest questions persist over Isaacman’s ties to Elon Musk and SpaceX, and NASA is operating with widespread furloughs during the federal funding lapse.