Almost two weeks have passed since Jared Isaacman received a fateful, short phone call from two officials in the Personnel Management office of President Trump. In those few seconds, the process of his life changed dramatically in the next three and a half years.
The president, the callers said, wanted to go in a different direction for the NASA manager. At the time, Isaacman was on the floor of the US Senate within a few days of a final mood and assured of two -part support. He had run the six -month -old glove of control, interviews and a hearing from the committee. He expected to be sworn in within a week. And then it was all gone.
“I was very disappointed, especially because it was so close to confirmation and I think we had a good plan to implement,” Isaacman told Ars on Wednesday.
The nomination of Isaacman was drawn for political reasons. While the founder of SpaceX and one -off President Trump confidant Elon Musk made his exit out of the White House, important officials who trampled through Musk revenge. They came a political appointment, Isaacman, who shared the passion of Musk for the reach of humanity as Mars. The dismissal was part of a series of events that eventually led to a break in the relationship between Trump and Musk, causing a word of words.
When I spoke with Isaacman this week, I didn't want to repeat the political Melee. I'd rather spoke about his plan. After all, he had six months to look under the hood of NASA, to identify the problems that the space agency stopped and released his potential in this new era of space travel.
A man with a plan
“It should not be a surprise, the organizational structure is very heavy with management and leadership,” said Isaacman. “Many senior leadership with long meetings who have their delegates who have their staff chef who have deputy staff chefs and associated delegates. It is not only a NASA problem; in the government there are main sum, deputy, deputy, and the very difficult-to-be-the-deputy-ripping is made-to-the-deputy-depputy decision. “
