{"id":417296,"date":"2025-12-01T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:47:17","slug":"lehigh-valley-billionaire-astronaut-in-running-to-be-nasa-administrator-heading-to-capitol-hill-wednesday-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417296\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley billionaire, astronaut in running to be NASA administrator heading to Capitol Hill Wednesday | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Local astronaut and businessman Jared Isaacman, who&#8217;s once again in the running to lead NASA, will be back on the hot seat on Capitol Hill this week.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll appear before a Senate committee on Wednesday as part of the confirmation process.<\/p>\n<p>This is a repeat of what Isaacman went through in the spring, but then President Trump withdrew his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Trump re-nominated Isaacman in October.<\/p>\n<p>Isaacman is the founder of Lehigh County based payment processing company Shift4.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also commanded two private, all-civilian space missions that he funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON &#8211; Local astronaut and businessman Jared Isaacman, who&#8217;s once again in the running to lead NASA, will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[26557,150432,165,159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-417296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-jared-isaacman","9":"tag-lehigh-county","10":"tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115644625605493724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}