Will Trump Destroy NASA? Its Moonshot is a Fantasy [R.Zubrin – Editorial]

By Dr. Robert Zubrin, Unherd, Dec. 3, 2025 At the end of May, all looked lost for Jared Isaacman. The billionaire tech entrepreneur, a self-funded astronaut who had been lined up to run NASA, suddenly had his nomination pulled by Donald Trump. The President had just fallen out with Elon Musk, who had briefly been the “First Buddy”. Isaacman, whose trips into space had been via Musk’s company SpaceX, was collateral damage. Not only was Isaacman a “blue-blooded Democrat”, the President wrote in… READ MORE >