Congratulations to Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator

Congratulations, Jared Isaacman for winning an overwhelming and bipartisan vote to become the new NASA Administrator. 

Thank you for focusing on landing Americans back on the Moon before China can land and make a territorial claim. We must maintain a U.S. national presence in orbit, return to the Moon--this time to stay and pioneer a permanent NASA-international partner-commercial base that will be the seed for massive science, industrialization, commercialization--and tourism. 

In parallel, we'll send Americans and our partners to Mars. A Mars base and eventually permanent colony will forever expand humanity's reach.

Here's a key point. Our national presence protects access for the free world and and for commercial space. We dare not let China control or deny access as they do in the South China Sea.

In your testimony to the Senate, you were absolutely correct: "This is not the time for delay but a time for action because if we fall behind — if we make a mistake — we may never catch up, and the consequences could shift the balance of power here on Earth."

As you'll know, Ye Peijian, the head of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program declared: “The universe is like the ocean, the moon is like the Diaoyu Islands and Mars is like Huangyan Island.” Diaoyu is the CCP's name for Japan’s sovereign Senkaku Islands, and Huangyan is actually Scarborough Shoal which belongs to the Philippines. That is a poetic shot across the bow we must not ignore.

Time is short--shorter than China wishes us to believe. They have an unlimited budget, plundered technologies, and an imperative to beat us to the Moon. They could land on the Moon at early as 2017 or early 2018 if all goes well. Their propaganda timelines are spread out, yet their known progress indicates much a much sooner date. 

Our pioneering exploration, continuing since Alan Shepard in 1961, enables and preserves the democratization of space, and extends to the Moon, Mars and beyond. In peace. For all mankind. Just as we promised on the plaque we left on the Moon.

Godspeed, Administrator Isaacman. Americans support a bold space program of exploration, and your efforts will inspire our youth and everyone to a greater future. 

Call Senate: Confirm Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator

Following the successful hearing in the Senate on December 3, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation will hold a vote on Monday, December 8 to advance the nomination of Jared Isaacman for NASA Administrator to the Senate floor. Once approved in committee, the nomination will be sent to the full Senate for a final vote.

Take action:

• Please call the Senators who serve on the committee at 202-224-3121. LIST Ask for their vote
• Then call your own Senators in favor of confirming Isaacman in the floor vote. LIST

It's essential that NASA has an official Administrator as we prepare to send astronauts to orbit the Moon on Artemis II in February, and then Artemis III must beat China to land on the Moon, ideally in late 2027 or early 2028.

You may hear "China will land in 2030, etc. That's deceptive tactics to make us believe there's no hurry. The truth is the Chinese have an unlimited budget, a militaristic drive to beat us and make territorial claims as in the South China Sea, and their progress in building and testing the hardware is advancing rapidly.

Mr. Isaacman understands the imperative. In his testimony, he stated:

I know it is not lost on anyone in this room that we are in a great competition with a rival [China] that has the will and means to challenge American exceptionalism across multiple domains, including in the high ground of space. This is not the time for delay, but for action, because if we fall behind--if we make a mistake--we may never catch up, and the consequences could shift the balance of power here on Earth.

Let's get Isaacman on the job and go full speed back to the Moon and on to Mars.