Trump’s NASA man has a new plan to take the U.S. to the moon

Jared Isaacman has a plan to turn NASA into an aggressive startup so it can win the space race against China. The only issue is timing.

Jared Isaacman departs at the conclusion of a press conference to provide an update on the Artemis II mission at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 27, 2026. [Source Photo: Miguel J Rodriguez Carrillo/AFP/Getty Images]

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman just announced a sweeping overhaul of America’s space strategy. Dubbed “Ignition,” it’s a tectonic shift in how the nation intends to conquer the moon. Isaacman, who took the agency’s helm in late 2025, laid out a hyper-accelerated road map to build a permanent lunar surface base before the end of President Donald J. Trump’s term. It is an aggressive departure from the agency’s previous trajectory, but looking at the unforgiving physics and glacial pace of actual aerospace engineering, the timeline reads like pure........

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