NASA is an obvious target for Elon Musk’s axe
Its Moon programme is a mess. But DOGE is likely to struggle to cut it to size
They say you should do something you love. Jared Isaacman, a tech billionaire nominated on December 4th as Donald Trump’s choice to run NASA, is so keen on space that he has spent hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money to go there not once, but twice.
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