Billionaire NASA chief who’s been to space twice says critics of billionaire space travel are ‘outright wrong.’

The billionaire leader of NASA, who has gone to space twice, has a message for critics of billionaire space travel: You’re “outright wrong.”

As the crew of Artemis II embarked on the first lunar mission in more than 50 years, NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, the billionaire payments processing company mogul confirmed to lead the agency late last year, praised his fellow billionaires for pouring their own resources into the space race.

“I’m grateful for folks like Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos, and Sir Richard Branson that have put their resources on the line for a capability for the good of all humankind right now,” he told Politico. 

While interviewer Dasha Burns pointed out that high profile figures such as UN Secretary General António Guterres had previously criticized billionaire space flight, Isaacman shot back at other critics: “I think they’re just outright wrong, and ill-informed and going for headlines. It’s such a bad take,” he said. Guterres in 2021 said billionaires were fueling societal mistrust by “joyriding to space while millions go hungry on Earth.” 

In defending billionaire space travel, Isaacman, whose........

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