Shift4 Payments CEO and civilian astronaut Jared Isaacman—President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next NASA administrator—will get his day before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Wednesday.
The committee this week announced the date of Isaacman’s confirmation hearing, about five months after Trump made the pick. The billionaire and SpaceX ally is viewed as an unusual choice to lead NASA, given his limited interactions with the space agency and civil space community.
