Trump names Sean Duffy as an interim chief of NASA after the withdrawal of Isaacman
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President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was tapping the transport secretary Sean Duffy to serve as an interim administrator of NASA, said the president who reflects the growing importance of space in national priorities.
“I am happy to announce that I direct our great transport secretary, Sean Duffy, to be an interim director of NASA”, Trump Published on social truth.
“He will be a fantastic leader of the ever-increasing space agency, if only for a short period.”
The president welcomed Duffy’s performance At the Ministry of Transport, calling for his “formidable” mandate and sharing his work on the modernization of air traffic control and the renewal of infrastructure. “Reconstruct our roads and our bridges, which makes them effective and beautiful,” wrote Trump.
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Transport secretary, Sean Duffy, testifies during a hearing in front of the Chamber’s credit committee in the office of the office of the house Rayburn on May 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)
Duffy, a former member of the Wisconsin congress and Trump for a long time, accepted the role with enthusiasm. “🚀 Honored to accept this mission. It is time to take up space. Let’s launch.” He wrote on X.
Duffy has replaced Janet Petro, who has been the acting administrator of NASA since January. Trump withdrew the appointment of Jared Isaacman for the role in May.
The administrator of Trump draws the appointment of Jared Isaacman to the administrator of NASA, replacement who will be announced “soon”
Jared Isaacman, former nominated to be a director of NASA of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, testified during his audience of the Commerce, Science and Transport Committee of the Senate in the construction of Russell on Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
Isaamman, a billionaire private and long -standing associate astronaut from Elon Musk, was nominated by Trump in December 2024, but faced a meticulous examination of links with Musk and SpaceX, which some officials considered a conflict of interest.
According to the Associated Press, Trump said that the decision to take the name of Isaacman after an “in -depth examination of previous associations” and an increasing concern concerning the “tangles of companies”.
The secretary of the dowry, Sean Duffy, assumes an additional role as an interim administrator of NASA. (Stefani Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)
NASA has increasingly taken into account the National Defense, Innovation and the Economic Defense Agenda of the Trump Administration. Trump has long stressed the strategic importance of space, launching spatial force during his first mandate.
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