{"id":14077,"date":"2025-12-09T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14077"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:19:03","slug":"us-senate-committee-votes-to-advance-nasa-nominee-jared-isaacman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14077","title":{"rendered":"US Senate Committee votes to advance NASA nominee Jared Isaacman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee voted late on Monday to advance the nomination of billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA.<br>Last week, President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee to lead the space agency touted his plans to put U.S. astronauts back on the moon before China gets there and sought to portray himself as independent from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20251209161831-1024x669.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20251209161831-1024x669.png 1024w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20251209161831-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20251209161831-768x502.png 768w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/\u4f01\u4e1a\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20251209161831.png 1057w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz said: &#8220;You are as committed to American supremacy in the final frontier as is this committee and the entire Senate. 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