{"id":37575,"date":"2024-12-11T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2024\/12\/11\/trumps-nasa-pick-says-military-will-inevitably-put-troops-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:16:47","slug":"trumps-nasa-pick-says-military-will-inevitably-put-troops-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2024\/12\/11\/trumps-nasa-pick-says-military-will-inevitably-put-troops-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s NASA pick says military will inevitably put troops in space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choice to be NASA\u2019s next administrator, Jared Isaacman, said Wednesday that as the U.S. establishes more of human presence in space, it will eventually need Space Force guardians stationed in the domain to protect its economic interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think it is absolutely inevitable,\u201d Isaacman said at the Space Force Association\u2019s Spacepower Conference in Orlando, Florida. \u201cIf Americans are in low Earth orbit, there\u2019s going to need to be people watching out for them for all the reasons we described before.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaacman, a tech billionaire who has traveled to space twice on commercial missions, said exploration and economic ambitions will drive more commercial and civil activity in space in the coming years \u2014 from space mining to NASA discovery missions. While some of that work will be done by robotic probes or remote operators, some of it will also require human input, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isaacman is CEO of Shift4 Payments, a payment processing company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2012, he co-founded Draken International \u2014 a firm that trains pilots on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2022\/11\/28\/us-air-forces-adair-fighter-training-needs-a-road-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">its own fleet of privately owned military fighter jets.<\/a> He links his interest in space to his own background as a jet pilot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2021, he self-funded a mission to space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, the first-ever spaceflight crewed only by civilians. In September, he took his second trip to space as part of a SpaceX program called Polaris. 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