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Entrevista con Jared Isaacman - Administrador de la NASA

📅 Oct 01, 2026 Manuel Mazzanti - Exploración Espacial 10 MIN 3019 VIEWS 28 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
Luego del despegue de la misión Crew 13 hablamos con el Administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman. Artemis, Starliner, el potencial retiro de Crew Dragon, la Luna, China... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Más Noticias en Exploración Espacial:    • Noticias   Entrevistas en Exploración Espacial:    • Entrevistas   -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Información diaria en Twitter:   / manumazzanti   Instagram:   / manumazzanti   ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music Intr...

What Jared Isaacman said

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Jared Isaacman, NASA Administrator and Shift4 founder, said the upcoming Artemis update in mid-October will clarify program acceleration, emphasizing progress on Artemis 3 landers, suits, and upper stages. He claims China will likely land astronauts on the Moon by 2029 or 2030, and that NASA must avoid coming up short to prevent signaling national dysfunction. On Starliner, he denied any acceleration, confirming an uncrewed demo in late 2026 and a crewed mission in 2028, with certification for Vulcan to extend its life. He praised Dragon's nine-year service and the shift to Starship. He rejected being called a disruptor, saying he follows the 1960s playbook of iterative missions toward the Moon, aiming to focus NASA resources and clear bureaucracy to enable achievements like a Moon base and nuclear spacecraft.

Key takeaways

  1. NASA will provide an Artemis acceleration update in mid-October, covering Artemis 3 landers, suits, upper stage, and kick stages.
  2. China may land astronauts on the Moon by 2029 or 2030, and that timing is achievable.
  3. Starliner's uncrewed demo is scheduled for end of 2026, crewed mission in 2028, not accelerated.
  4. Dragon will potentially have nine years of service until 2029 if it ends then.
  5. Starliner will be certified for Vulcan to serve commercial destinations beyond ISS.

Numbers and commitments

FigureWhat it refers toTypeAt
2028 Target for Artemis 4 mission timeline 2:29
2029 or 2030 China's potential Moon landing timing timeline 3:27
end of 2026 Starliner uncrewed demonstration timeline 4:37
2028 Starliner crewed mission timeline 4:37
2029 Potential end of Dragon service timeline 4:37

Chapters

  1. 0:00Artemis acceleration update
  2. 3:22Competition with China
  3. 4:37Starliner status and Dragon legacy
  4. 7:15Leadership and legacy goals

Questions asked in this interview

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  1. 1:31What keeps you worried that we need to accelerate things?
  2. 2:48Is there anything that keeps you up at night regarding Artemis in particular?
  3. 3:17Are you worried that China gets there first?
  4. 6:42Administrator, how would you like to be remembered?
  5. 8:39Do you see yourself working at any of your companies, or is this like a dream come true and you say, 'Oh, I want to stay here'?
Jared Isaacman 0:20 ↗
SpaceX, Falcon Heavy, Jared Isaacman, Simplic, Jared is...
Interviewer 1:19 ↗
Administrator, thank you so much for your time. You're everywhere.
Jared Isaacman 1:24 ↗
We have a lot to do. Not a whole lot of time to do it in. So that does require a lot of time being everywhere.
Interviewer 1:31 ↗
Sometimes it's difficult to keep up with you with all the news and everything. Actually, I was reviewing — you mentioned that we are going to have a kind of an acceleration event regarding Artemis. My question is, I don't know if it's a press event, it's something that is going to happen. What keeps you worried that we need to accelerate things?
Jared Isaacman 1:52 ↗
So, I do want to clarify because I think when Eric Berger put out his tweet, it was misinterpreted. When we had our ignition event, we talked about how we are going to standardize and accelerate the Artemis program, launch mission 27. I just said we owe you an update on Artemis acceleration. It is not an acceleration of an acceleration. I think we tried to line it up for the Crew-13 launch today, but you have teams that are getting ready to go over to IA and Turkey. And we have to leave from here to a couple other events. So we're targeting mid-October, approximately.
Interviewer 2:28 ↗
Okay.
Jared Isaacman 2:29 ↗
This is just to give you an update. How's Artemis 3 coming together? What's the progress with the landers? How's the HLS providers? What are we doing about suits? What are we doing about upper stage? What else are we exploring — kick stages? We're going to look at every knob and lever that we can possibly turn or pull that improve the probability of a safe, successful Artemis 4 mission in 2028.
Interviewer 2:48 ↗
Is there anything that keeps you up at night regarding Artemis in particular?
Jared Isaacman 2:55 ↗
Well, I would just say that there's a lot to do in a very short period of time, right? And we have a great competitor, and competition and a competitor is a very good thing because it does help you focus your resources and energy in the direction you want to go. And the direction we want to go is the moon. So we're all working very hard right now. So if we're up at night, it's not because of fear of something. It's just because we're still working.
Interviewer 3:17 ↗
Are you worried that China gets there first?
Jared Isaacman 3:22 ↗
I think there is no question that China is going to get their astronauts to the surface of the moon.
Interviewer 3:26 ↗
That's no question. Yes.
Jared Isaacman 3:27 ↗
Yeah. And I think that their timing, whether it's 2029 or 2030, is very achievable. So I do take the implications of coming up short very seriously. As I've discussed, I do think NASA is a national security mission in that when we do undertake and achieve the near impossible, it sends a message: look at what we are capable of achieving. But I also think the inverse is true, that when you make promises and you spend a lot of money and you come up short, that it says something is broken. And I think the implications of something is broken goes beyond space. And that is not something that I want to see happen. And thankfully we have the resources, the mandate, the talent, the experience. We did this before. We have the playbook and we can do it again. And this time we can go back and stay and build the base.

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Isaacman, J. (2026, October 1). Entrevista con Jared Isaacman - Administrador de la NASA [Interview transcript]. Manuel Mazzanti - Exploración Espacial. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2972458/

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Jared Isaacman. "Entrevista con Jared Isaacman - Administrador de la NASA." Manuel Mazzanti - Exploración Espacial, 1 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2972458/.

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@misc{isaacman2026_2972458,
  author       = {Jared Isaacman},
  title        = {Entrevista con Jared Isaacman - Administrador de la NASA},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, Manuel Mazzanti - Exploración Espacial. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {oct},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/2972458/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}