Jared Isaacman is a man of great accomplishment, having founded his first multibillion dollar company at the tender age of 16. He has embarked on two private spaceflights, including Inspiration4, which raised hundreds of billions for St. Jude’s Children’s Cancer Research Hospital. Polaris Dawn featured the first private spacewalk and ventured farther from Earth than any human has gone since Apollo 17.

Isaacman is on the brink of his greatest challenge. He will soon become NASA administrator with the mandate to take the space agency, the U.S., and the world to the moon, Mars and beyond.

No pressure.

During his confirmation hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee, Isaacman promised that he would have NASA go back to the moon and on to Mars and perform a wide variety of science missions with the current space agency budget. Two days later, President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget proposed lopping 20 percent of NASA’s budget, which would include cutting the space agency’s science programs in half.

The proposed cuts would kill the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, the Mars Sample Return Mission and the DAVINCI Venus probe. They would close NASA’s Goddard Space........

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