"I was surprised to learn that he was a blue-blooded Democrat, who had never contributed to a Republican before."

After unceremoniously withdrawing the nomination for NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, a SpaceX astronaut who was handpicked by billionaire Elon Musk, president Donald Trump is desperately trying to fit the role.

US President Donald Trump has appointed Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as the interim administrator of NASA, succeeding withdrawn nominee Jared Isaacman. Trump cited Duffy's infrastructure work and air traffic control improvements as qualifications.

Jared Isaacman is a high-school-dropout-turned-billionaire who was once nominated to lead NASA. Now he's been dragged into Trump and Musk's feud.

Donald Trump has revealed the new head of NASA as a former MTV reality star who once did a striptease in a hotel room. Before tiptoeing into politics, Sean Duffy gained notoriety as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: Boston in the late 1990s.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy, who fell out with tech boss over DOGE cuts to air traffic control, named as interim leader of space agency