Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
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Jared Isaacman was nominated by President Trump to become the fifteenth administrator of NASA in December. He passed out of the Senate committee in May and was set to be confirmed by the full Senate this week. However, on Friday President Trump withdrew his nomination for Isaacman. We asked Jared to sit down with us for conversation. We dive into everything. His experiences as a successful entrepreneur, fighter jet pilot, commander of the world's first all civilian spaceflight, and the first civilian to conduct a spacewalk. What he saw in his six months studying NASA, how American government b
doing all in. Alright, besties. I think that was another epic discussion. People love the interviews. I could hear him talk for hours. Absolutely. We
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you guys say? That was fun. I'm doing all
in. Jared, welcome. I, like many space enthusiasts, was thrilled for your nomination to lead NASA as the fifteenth administrator of the agency. Founded in 1958, the year after the Russians put Sputnik into orbit, NASA's perhaps, in my opinion, the US government's most pioneering agency, having organized and led our exploration missions to the moon, Mars, the outer solar system, and beyond, as well as the launch of important scientific missions to observe the Earth, to observe our solar system and the deep universe, and of course, the installation and operation of the ISS. And you seemed really
a space enthusiast since kindergarten, whether it's through the lens of commercial space or, you know, the great space race from the nineteen sixties or NASA of today, like, these are all subjects I get pretty charged up about. So love to chat about.
What inspired you to get into space? You went to Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and you later became an entrepreneur, but were you always kind of obsessed with space and did you always dream of doing what you got to do last year, which is walk in space?
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