No pressure: How Isaacman could get the US back to the moon before China

With his renomination by President Trump, billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman has won the space Game of Thrones. All he has to do is go through the confirmation process again before he assumes the Iron Throne of NASA. Let that process be done with all due speed, since Isaacman has a lot to do when he becomes head of the space agency.

The latest target in the war against space billionaires

President Donald Trump has renominated billionaire private space traveler Jared Isaacman to be NASA administrator. While Isaacman is expected to sail through confirmation, not everyone is enamored with the man. The same people who disdain space-faring billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos dislike Isaacman, too.

Biden's wealth tax would undermine his space and environmental goals

The Biden administration seems not to have thought things through when it ventured into "soak-the-rich" territory. The proposal is obviously a sop to Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and members of "the Squad" who have targeted wealthy, successful taxpayers as enemies of the people. However, the more money that people such as Musk, Bezos, and Gates must pay to the government, the less they will have to invest in innovative technologies that will address the problems of space travel and climate change.