Washington, during a three-hour committee hearing on the DC-Wednesday, a nominee named NASA for the Trump administration faced difficult questions from US senators who sought promises from specific plans.
However, jet planes and former military aircraft, business and private astronauts in Ishaq Mann, like a pilot of more than 7,000 hours, panic, and it is not eliminated. His main message to the Senate Committee for Trade, Science, and Transportation was that NASA is an extraordinary agency that works impossible, but it also faces some challenges. He said NASA has received an “extraordinary” budget, and has pledged to use TAX taxpayers effectively using effective use in search of the universe and maintain the country’s superiority over geopolitical rivals in space.
Isaac Man said, “I have revived the American dream, and I have a great debt to this nation,” which established his first business in his parents’ basement in 16 years, and an online paying company, Shift 4, will make it a billionaire. Isaac is also a hobby pilot who provided himself with financial support and guided the two private missions to orbit on the staff dragon. He said that the well -known NASA “will be a lifetime honor.”
The hearing took place on Wednesday morning at the US capital, in the Russell Senate office building, in which a marble column and a wide room with three major chandeliers. There was plenty of space flight royalties in the hand, including four astronauts that would fly on the Artemis II mission, as well as six private citizens who flown with Isaac Man on their two dragon missions.
Commenting on the committee’s astronauts, the committee chair, R Texas, US San Ted Cruz, said, “We could have the worst attack on the Senate hearing.”
Is determined to live on the moon?
However, when the meeting reached the pieces of brass, there were sharp questions for Ishaqman.
Cruz began the hearing, explaining its priorities for NASA clearly and clearly: He focuses most of the fact that the United States does not show any importance to China in space, and begins with less earth orbit and moon.
He said, “Don’t make a mistake, the Chinese Communist Party has been clear in the desire to dominate the place, which has set up a fully active space station in the orbit and robotic roofs of the moon far away from the moon.” “We’re not going in the next space race. It’s already here.”
Cruise wanted Isaac to pledge not only to blow human missions on the moon, but also to the surface or to the place of Sicilonar.
In response, Isaac Man said that he would see that NASA returns humans to the moon as soon as possible, and is defeating China in this process. It includes flying Artemis II around the moon in 2026, and then landing on the Artemis III mission later this decade.
What to do after this disagreement. Ishaqman, while echoing the Trump administration, said that the agency should move forward, and that humans should send them to Mars as soon as possible. However, Cruz wanted Isaacman to say that NASA would establish a permanent presence on the moon. Cruz reminded Isaacman that the committee had allowed legislation to make it compulsory.
“If this is the law, I am determined to it,” said Ishaqman.
NASA’s astronauts Red Wiseman, left, Victor Glaver, Cristina Coach, and CSA (Canada Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hanson Watch testifies to Jareide Ishaqman on Wednesday.
Credit: NASA/Bill Angles
NASA’s astronauts Red Wiseman, left, Victor Glaver, Cristina Coach, and CSA (Canada Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hanson Watch testifies to Jareide Ishaqman on Wednesday.
Credit: NASA/Bill Angles
The Cruz also demanded the commitment of Isaac Man to fly the International Space Station through at least 2030, which is the current history of the space agency to retire in the orbit laboratory. Ishaqman said that it was reasonable and he added that NASA should squeeze every possible research till this time. However, when Cruz pressed Isaac Man about the lunar gateway, a space station is getting ready to fly in the elliptical orbit around NASA moon, Ishaqman will not be drawn. He replied that he would work with Congress and space agency officials to ask which programs are working and which programs are not.
The gateway is a program that has been confronted by Cruz because it is managed by the Johnson Space Center in Texas. In keeping with the interests of the parachute, many stakeholders of the space community question the value of the gateway to NASA’s research projects.
The future of ten centers and SLS
Isaac Man and Sen Maria Kent Well, D. Wash. There was a very tense conversation between Ishaq Mann that he would not close any 10 field centers in NASA, and also that the space agency would blow up Artemis II and Artemis III missions on the space launch system rocket.
Regarding field centers, the space agency has been discussed about making some of them more efficient. This is a politically sensitive topic, and naturally, where those centers are located, their politicians are their guards. At the same time, there is a common identity that stabilizing your tasks as a modernization part for NASA will be more cost -effective.
Isaac Man did not respond directly to Kent Well’s question about field centers. In fact, he said he was not briefed on the administration’s plans for NASA’s structure. “Senator, a lot can be told me before the hearing,” he said. In response to further additions, Ishaqman said, “When Ideas was talked about for the reorganization of NASA, I would like to run my sleeves.”
Kentwell and other senators pressured Ishaq Man to use NASA’s space launch system rocket as part of a total plan to reach the lunar level. Isaac Man made it as if it was as it was to blow up Artemis II – it was not surprising that the staff was in the audience – and said that he wanted to take the staff of Artemis III on the lunar level as soon as possible. But he asked why he had taken NAS NASA so long, and at such a huge expense to advance the human search project.
He said, right, that the presidential administration in 1989 is issuing plans to send humans to the moon or Mars, and it has spent more than $ 100 billion on various projects over the past four decades. For all of them, Ishaqman and his private polar staff staff colleagues have become human beings far away from earth since the Apollo program. They did this last year.
“Why is it taking us so long, and why do we have to go to the moon so much?” He asked.
In a remarkable exchange, Ishaqman said that NASA’s current architecture for SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft lunar projects, perhaps the ideal “long -term” solution to NASA’s deep space transport projects. Its clever read is that Isaac can be ready to blow up Artemis II and Artemis III missions, as hardware is already made. But everything that comes after, including the SLS rocket upgrade and the lunar gateway, can be on the cutting block. Ars wrote further Why is this a reasonable way last September?
Eliminating a relationship with Space X
Some of the most intelligent questions came from American, Andy Kim, D New Jersey. During the allotment of his time, Kim also pressured Isaac Man on the question of a permanent presence on the moon. Ishaqman replied that NASA is essential for robotic missions as well as “economic, scientific and national security value” on the moon, with robotic missions, the acquisition of astronauts on the moon. He said that with this information, NASA would be given a better position to determine why and why it should be sustainable on the moon.
If that were the case, Kim later asked, “What is the cost of economic, scientific and national security to send humans to Mars?” Without responding directly to this question, Ishaqman reiterated that NASA should look for both the moon and Mars in parallel. NASA will need to be more efficient to afford it, and some US senators are skeptical. But it seems that Isaac Man really believes in it and wants to make NASA more cost -effective and “focusing on the mission”.
Throughout the hearing, Ishaqman, with his repeated remarks, appeared that he was committed to NASA’s science programs and he was desperate to help maintain NASA’s reputation to make the impossible possible. He also said that it was a “basic” responsibility of the space agency to affect the next generation of scientists.
During the questioning of Sen Edward Marki, D Moss, there was a difficult moment, which expressed his concern over Isaac Man’s relationship with SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Isaac Man was previously an investor in Space X and has paid two dragon missions. In a letter written in MarchIshaqman said how he would eliminate his “original and apparent” conflict of interest with SpaceX.
However, Marki wanted to know if Ishaqman would be pulling liver for Musk in NASA, and for the financial benefit of Space X. Marki pressed several times whether Musk was in the Mar-A-Logo room later last year when Trump presented Isaac Man as NASA administrator. Ishaqman has repeatedly reiterated that he is meeting with Trump, not anyone else. Asked if he had discussed his plans with Musk about NASA, Ishaq Man said, “I don’t have.”
Earlier, during the hearing, Ishaqman tried to make it clear that he was not seen in any way.
Ishaqman said, “My loyalty is from this nation, space agency, and its global changing mission. Yes, he admitted that he would talk to space agency contractors. Ishaqman said that a wide range of his point of view was necessary to attract himself, but he wanted to make it clear, but he wanted to make it clear.”
After the April 15th of this month, a full vote of the committee is expected on Isaac Man, and if successful, the nomination will be given to the Senate. Isaac Man may be confirmed in the end or May of this month.