{"id":21403,"date":"2025-04-30T20:35:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/senate-science-committee-moves-nasa-administrator-confirmation-to-full-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:35:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T12:35:18","slug":"senate-science-committee-moves-nasa-administrator-confirmation-to-full-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/senate-science-committee-moves-nasa-administrator-confirmation-to-full-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate science committee moves NASA Administrator confirmation to full vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<p>\t<img width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?w=320&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?w=640&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?w=1024&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?w=1500&amp;quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-attachment-id=\"43191\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/2025\/04\/26\/jared-isaacmans-confirmation-vote-set-for-wednesday\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Jared Isaacman Confirmation\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\n\n<p>Image: NASA<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; data-large-file=&#8221;https:\/\/spaceexplored.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/04\/54441428756_ceacdac34e_o.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024&#8243;><figcaption>\n\t\t\t\tImage: NASA\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wednesday morning, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation voted to submit Jared Isaacman\u2018s nomination for NASA Administrator favorably to the full Senate. This is the final step before Isaacman can be confirmed as the new administrator.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-43238\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both Ted Cruz, committee chair, and Maria Cantwell, committee ranking member, made statements supporting Isaacman\u2019s nomination to the NASA post. This pretty much sealed the deal for Isaacman to move forward; however, the decision wasn\u2019t unanimous, instead ending in a 19-9 vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Yay votes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ted Cruz, Texas (Chairman)<\/li>\n<li>John Thune, South Dakota<\/li>\n<li>Roger Wicker, Mississippi<\/li>\n<li>Deb Fischer, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>Jerry Moran, Kansas<\/li>\n<li>Dan Sullivan, Alaska<\/li>\n<li>Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>Todd Young, Indiana<\/li>\n<li>Ted Budd, North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>Eric Schmitt, Missouri<\/li>\n<li>John Curtis, Utah<\/li>\n<li>Bernie Moreno, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Tim Sheehy, Montana<\/li>\n<li>Shelley Moore Capito, West Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming<\/li>\n<li>Maria Cantwell, Washington (Ranking Member)<\/li>\n<li>Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin<\/li>\n<li>John Hickenlooper, Colorado<\/li>\n<li>Andy Kim, New Jersey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nay votes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota<\/li>\n<li>Brian Schatz, Hawaii<\/li>\n<li>Ed Markey, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Gary Peters, Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Tammy Duckworth, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Jacky Rosen, Nevada<\/li>\n<li>Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, New Mexico<\/li>\n<li>John Fetterman, Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The committee\u2019s members who voted against Isaacman\u2019s nomination didn\u2019t make any comments as to why they would not support it. However, with some cross-aisle support, Isaacman\u2019s nomination is likely a guarantee once it hits the full Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The primary concern of the Senate committee is to ensure Congress\u2019 mandate to return to the Moon and set up a permanent presence is continued. While President Trump has support in Congress for many of his agendas, it doesn\u2019t sound like his pivot to a mission to Mars is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\t<span class=\"outbrain-ad-label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/plain\">\n\t\t\twindow.adSlotsConfig = window.adSlotsConfig || [];<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tadSlotsConfig.push( {\n\t\t\t\tslotID: '\/1049447\/Outbrain',\n\t\t\t\tslotName: 'div-gpt-ad-outbrain-ad-43238',\n\t\t\t\tsizes: [300, 250],\n\t\t\t\tslotPosition: 'mid_article'\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proposed budget cuts have also proven to be unpopular. What has been an interesting move is that Isaacman hasn\u2019t come out in support of or against any proposed budget cuts but has stated he can do everything with a smaller budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many rumors of potential plans for NASA going around; however, we won\u2019t know for certain until Isaacman is confirmed, a budget is passed, and work begins. The Moon could still become a focus if Congress fights hard enough, or we could see a complete move to Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}