Jared Isaacman
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Jared Isaacman (born 11 February 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut who has served as the 15th administrator of NASA since December 2025. He is the founder of Draken International, a private air force provider and the founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, a payment processor.
Quotes
[edit]- I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit. … I also think if we are going to live in that world, we better conquer childhood cancer along the way.
- Back at home, we all have a lot of work to do. But from here, Earth sure looks like a perfect world.
- Remarks at the start of the first civilian spacewalk,on the Polaris Dawn space mission (12 September 2024), quoted in "Tech billionaire pulls off first private spacewalk high above Earth", AP News (12 September 2024)
External links
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- Tourist Biography: Jared Isaacman (Spacefacts)
- Countdown: Inspiration4: Mission to Space at Netflix
- 2008/2009 World Record attempts Archived December 19, 2008, at the Wayback Machine