U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, selecting a billionaire private astronaut and close associate of Elon Musk to oversee an agency closely linked to the SpaceX founder's business.

Jared Isaacman, CEO and founder of a card-processing company, has been a close collaborator with Elon Musk ever since buying his first chartered flight with SpaceX.

Space holds unparalleled potential for breakthroughs in manufacturing, biotechnology, mining, and perhaps even pathways to new sources of energy,” Isaacman said on social med

Elon Musk’s record-setting Tesla Inc. pay package was struck down once again by a Delaware judge, threatening to wrest billions of dollars from the world’s richest person and one of Donald Trump’s closest confidants.

Elon Musk’s massive 2018 pay package from Tesla — which was worth $56 billion and helped catapult him to the title of richest man in the world — must be rescinded, a Delaware judge reaffirmed Monday.

Elon Musk may have helped reelect Donald Trump and won influence in the new administration. But an appointed Delaware judge has dealt his best-known company, Tesla, another rebuke in its attempt to grant Musk more than $50 billion in additional company stock.