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July 22nd, 2025
Image credit:: Glenn Beck Podcast /Inside Outer Space screengrab
A Glenn Beck Podcast features a conversation with astronaut Jared Isaacman.
When President Trump nominated him to be the new head of NASA, he ran into a firestorm of turbulence that he’s not used to navigating: D.C. politics.
“Jared Isaacman may be the ultimate embodiment of the American dream, or he’s possibly the real-life version of Tom Cruise’s “Top Gun” character, Maverick. He is a wildly successful businessman who started a billion-dollar company out of his parents’ basement when he was a teenager. He has never been in the military, yet he owns and flies his own fighter jets,” Beck notes.
Jared Isaacman, mission commander for Polaris Dawn.
Image credit: Barbara David
Isaacman is an astronaut who has worked with SpaceX, and became the first civilian in history to perform a spacewalk. When President Trump nominated him to be the new head of NASA, he seemed like an ideal outsider choice who would soar to confirmation.
Isaacman sits down with Glenn Beck to tell the story behind his thwarted nomination, including whether Elon Musk played a role and why America must defeat China in the new space races, including artificial intelligence.
Fascinating video below, at:
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Something I want to mention to you…
The U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein Campaign!
We want the new Secretary of the Navy – John Phelan — to name a future DDG-51 Flight III
destroyer for Robert A. Heinlein.
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It is the prerogative of the Secretary of the Navy to name Navy vessels. Navy policy is to name destroyers for deceased members of the Navy.
We want the new Secretary of the Navy – John Phelan — to name a future DDG-51 Flight III destroyer for Robert A. Heinlein.
This would happen if lots of people write asking him to name a future Arleigh
Burke-class destroyer for Heinlein.
Phelan’s address is:
The Honorable John Phelan
Secretary of the Navy
Room 4E686
Defense Pentagon
Washington, D.C. 20301
More information may be found at the Campaign website.
http://www.USSRobertAHeinlein.com
What To Do —
• Write John Phelan; ask him to name a U.S. Navy vessel the
U.S.S. Robert A. Heinlein.
• Get as many others as you can to do the same!
• Spread the information on the Campaign as far and as wide as possible!
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