Jared Isaacman, President Trump's nominee to lead NASA, tells lawmakers the space agency can return astronauts to the moon while pursuing flights to Mars.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The nominee for NASA’s top job, billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman, outlined his vision for space exploration on Wednesday that prioritizes sending astronauts to Mars without giving up on the moon.

American space agency NASA has begun studying the five samples of spacesuit material it sent over the Mars on the Perseverance rover

Nearly 25 years after its launch, NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter is still going strong. In a post on Monday, the agency celebrated 24 years of the Orbiter's launch that kickstarted one of the most productive missions. The orbiter was launched on April 7, 2001 and NASA says it is still doing science and acting as a comms relay for ground operations.

Moore, a space nutritionist, partnered with NASA and SpaceX to send the first mushrooms into orbit.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious rock made of hundreds of tiny spheres that resemble spider eggs. Studying its formation could help us look for fossilized remains of microbial life on Mars.

President Donald Trump's NASA administrator nominee, Jared Isaacman, testified before the Senate that SpaceX works for NASA, "not the other way around."

In response, Isaacman said he would see that NASA returns humans to the Moon as quickly as possible, beating China in the process. This includes flying Artemis II around the Moon in 2026, and then landing the Artemis III mission later this decade.

If confirmed, the tech entrepreneur would become the youngest person to lead the space agency and among only a handful of administrators to have actually rocketed into orbit.