NASA and the Office of Personnel Management have announced a push to recruit engineers and technologists less than a year after the space agency lost thousands of employees as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

Isaacman also has been driven by something else that took place the day he was sworn in: the release of an executive order on space policy. That directive calls on NASA to return humans to the moon by 2028 and establish the initial elements of a lunar outpost by 2030,

NASA outlined a new plan for its Artemis lunar program that includes an extra mission before a moon landing as early as 2028.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced significant changes to the agency's Artemis program, which aims to land on the moon in 2028.

Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The nebula lies some 4,400 light-years away from Earth.

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced a revised NASA authorization bill that implements some changes to Artemis sought by the agency.

NASA is sending the first Black and first female astronauts to the moon in an upcoming launch, marking the first journey to the moon in over 50 years.

At the core of Isaacman’s concerns is the low flight rate of the SLS rocket and Artemis missions. During past exploration missions, from Mercury through Gemini, Apollo, and the Space Shuttle program, NASA has launched humans on average about once every three months. It has been nearly 3.5 years since Artemis I launched.