Is the future of US space exploration more dictated by political winds than by engineering vision? The unexpected pulling back of Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA, after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s temporary appointment,

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill adds $9.9 billion to NASA’s budget, reversing plans to cut the Space Launch System and Orion.

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The U.S. president made the announcement late on July 9 on Truth Social, painting Duffy as a patriotic powerhouse who has “rebuilt our roads and bridges” and created “state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control systems”.