Incoming NASA Administrator Throws Elon Musk's Mars Plans Under the Bus

Incoming NASA Administrator Throws Elon Musk's Mars Plans Under the Bus

Incoming NASA administrator and billionaire fighter jet pilot-turned-SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman isn't keen on president Donald Trump's purported goal of brutally slashing the space agency's science budget nearly in half. As SpaceNews reports, Isaacman called the White House's proposed budgets not an "optimal outcome" in published responses to questions by bipartisan members of the Senate Commerce Committee this week. The private astronaut c…