Musk Allies Control NASA Under Trump, Leaving SpaceX Competitors Behind

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The tendrils of **Elon Musk** have already begun to spread in American politics. **Donald Trump** has chosen Jared Isaacman, the CEO of payment processing company Shift4 Payments, to lead NASA, and **a close collaborator** from Musk. He goes from being a private client of the richest man in the world to being one from the public sector, at a time when SpaceX has multimillion-dollar contracts with the agency and its CEO has become the first buddy of the new Trump administration. This is expected to mean **a privatization of the space race** with a clear winner and two other losers.

The announcement was not long in coming. “Jared will pave the way for achievements in science, technology and space exploration,” said the Republican president-elect. He would thus replace Bill Nelson, 82 years old. Between the resume of both **there is an abyss**: one is a **former democratic senator** from Florida who was nominated by President Joe Biden and the other **has not set foot in a government building** in your life.

Isaacman is a billionaire high school dropout who, as a teenager, founded Shift4, a company

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