Six weeks after he terminated the nomination of Jared Isaacman to develop into NASA Administrator, President Trump moved on Wednesday night to put in a brand new non permanent chief for the area company.
The newly named interim administrator, Sean Duffy, already has a full portfolio: He’s serving because the Secretary of Transportation, a Cupboard-level place that oversees 55,000 workers at 13 companies, together with the Federal Aviation Administration.
“Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in dealing with our Nation’s Transportation Affairs, together with making a state-of-the-art Air Visitors Management techniques, whereas on the identical time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them environment friendly, and delightful, once more,” Trump wrote on his social media community Wednesday night. “He will probably be a implausible chief of the ever extra essential House Company, even when just for a brief time period.”
In response to this publish, Duffy wrote on X, “Honored to just accept this mission. Time to take over area. Let’s launch.”
The concept of the Secretary of Transportation additionally working NASA might look like an odd selection, however in some methods the appointment of Duffy is smart for the President. Whether or not it’s useful to the area company stays to be seen, however two business sources talking confidentially stated they’d not instantly dismiss the prospect.
Who’s Sean Duffy?
Duffy has a colourful background, starring on the Actual World: Boston actuality tv present in 1997, and serving as a commentator on ESPN. A Republican, he served within the US Home of Representatives from 2011 to 2019. He’s married and has 9 kids.
Though he doesn’t have an area background, Duffy has proven an curiosity in spaceflight since changing into FAA Administrator. He watched from NASA Headquarters the Crew 9 mission’s splashdown on March 18, which introduced Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams again to Earth after a chronic keep in area. He additionally had expressed an curiosity in attending the forthcoming Crew 11 launch on the finish of this month.
