Nearly two weeks have passed since Jared Isaqman received a luck, brief phone call from two officers in the office of President Trump’s Personnel Management. In those few seconds, the trajectory of his life in the next three and a half years changed dramatically.

The President, the callers said, wanted to go in a different direction for NASA’s administrator. At that time, Isaacman was within the days of a final vote on the floor of the US Senate and assured of bipartisan support. He ran a six -month -old vetting, interview and a committee of hearing of a committee. He was expected to take oath within a week. And then, it was all gone.

Isaqman told ARS on Wednesday, “I was very disappointed, especially because it was too close to confirmation and I think we had a good plan to implement.”

Isaacman’s enrollment was drawn for political reasons. To get out of the White House, the founder of SpaceX and one -time President Trump’s confidant Elon Musk realized that he was avenged before Musk’s trample by Musk. He stabbed a political appointment, Isaacman, who shared Musk’s passion to increase the reach of humanity on Mars. The dismissal was part of a series of events, which eventually ignited by igniting in relations between Trump and Musk War of word,

When I talked to Isaqman this week, I did not want to rejuvenate the political scuffle. I liked to talk about his plan. Eventually, he had six months to look under NASA’s hood, identifying problems that were holding the space agency back, and releasing their ability in this new era of spacefall.

A man with a plan

“It should not be a surprise, the organizational structure is very heavy with management and leadership,” said Isaqman. “A lot of senior leadership with long meetings, who have their duties, who have employees, who have staff and deputy chiefs of Associate Duty. It is not just a NASA problem; across the government, the principal, deputy, assistant-to-depat roles across the government.