Jared Isaacman has opened up on why he believes his nomination to be NASA administrator was abruptly withdrawn by the White House. "It was a real bummer," Isaacman said during an appearance on the All-In Podcast on June 4, describing the moment he was told the president had "decided to go in a different direction."

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request, if approved by Congress, would kill many of NASA’s plans for robotic exploration of the solar system. Gone, too, would be multiple space-based missions to study Earth, the sun and the rest of the universe.

The Trump administration's budget proposal calls for the number of full-time employees at NASA Glenn to be reduced from nearly 1,400 to 837 for fiscal year 2026.

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) have been targeted as well.

The U.S. science community has grown "completely reliant" on SpaceX, said Col. Terry Virts, a former NASA astronaut.

The fallen NASA administrator nominee was clearly not a fan of the agency's plan to return astronauts to the Moon.

The White House’s budget plan for NASA would be woefully inadequate for achieving near-term human voyages to Mars, experts say

Financial technology billionaire Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest President Donald Trump withdrew his nomination to run NASA due to his close ties to Elon Musk amid the SpaceX chief executive officer’s falling out in Washington.

As the fracas between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump escalated to the point of Musk threatening to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, NASA revealed even more delays to Dragon's alternative,