Trump's NASA pick says his future SpaceX missions "a question mark" (updated)

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11/12/2024 20:44

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       ORLANDO, Dec 11 (Reuters) - 
    U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for NASA
administrator, tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday
that the private astronaut missions he has planned with Elon
Musk's SpaceX "may wind up on hold for a moment," as he prepares
to enter government service leading the U.S. space agency.
    "The future of the Polaris program is a little bit of a
question mark at the moment," Isaacman, who was tapped by Trump
last week to lead NASA, said in response to a question at the
Spacepower 2024 conference in Orlando. "It may wind up on hold
for a moment."
        Isaacman, a private astronaut and billionaire founder of
payment processing company Shift4 Payments  FOUR.N , owns the
Polaris program, a series of private missions on SpaceX vehicles
that has made him a key associate of Musk.

 (Reporting by Joey Roulette; editing by Diane Craft and
Franklin Paul)
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