AdvertisementTrump's choice of NASA Administrator suggests he wants to shake up the agency's status quo. More importantly, though, he's on the cutting edge of the new commercial space age, where private companies are becoming the biggest actors in space. AdvertisementThe nomination, which still has to be confirmed by the Senate, suggests that Trump wants to shake things up at NASA. That's the slow-moving status quo that Trump might aim to shake up. In places like Alabama and Southern California, a status quo NASA fuels the work of legacy aerospace contractors like Boeing and Northrop Grumman.

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Persons: Jared Isaacman, Donald Trump, Trump, Jared Isaacman —, he's, Jim Bridenstine, Bill Nelson, Leroy Chiao, It's, Elon Musk, Isaacman, Artemis, Steve Seipel, Chiao, Abhi Tripathi, Tripathi, Northrop Grumman, Jared Organizations: NASA, SpaceX, Senate, Space, Trump, Orion, Kennedy Space Center, UC Berkeley Space Sciences, Boeing, Northrop, Trump White House Locations: Hawthorne , California, Isaacman, Florida, Alabama, Southern California