President Trump’s pick to lead NASA, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, refused on Wednesday to say if Elon Musk was in the room when Trump first offered him the job. Isaacman — who was

Amid media reports of skyrocketing valuation and a potential IPO for SpaceX, the company could have a lot to lose next year.

In April, during Jared Isaacman's first nomination hearing for the post of NASA administrator, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts asked repeatedly if SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk was in the room when President Donald Trump offered him the job of NASA chief. Isaacman declined to answer directly.

Billionaire SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said his relationship to Elon Musk is limited to past missions with the chief executive’s space company, as the nominee to run NASA attempted to counter concerns of a conflict of interest if he is confirmed for the job.

NASA’s acting Administrator Sean Duffy seems to have provoked the ire of Elon Musk. Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, took aim at Duffy on Tuesday in a flurry of social media posts, attacking his intelligence and recent efforts at the helm of the ...

Jared Isaacman, the commercial astronaut, founder of Shift4 Payments and self-made billionaire, will likely be confirmed as the administrator of NASA before the end of the year.

Elon Musk's comments comes days after multiple US news outlets reported that a SpaceX IPO is coming in 2026. The reported valuation of the offer would represent the second-richest completed public share sale in history.