The billionaire is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to the planet, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX.

Despite SpaceX already being NASA's largest private contractor, Elon Musk is still hellbent on assuming control over the space agency. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the mercurial CEO is doing much in his power to push NASA to skip its planned journeys to the Moon and focus on Mars instead,

Isaacman has a contract worth tens of millions of dollars, or more, with Elon Musk’s spaceflight and satellite company, SpaceX. Isaacman, a pilot and commercial astronaut, has traveled to space twice on SpaceX spacecraft. The Senate Commerce Committee has not yet scheduled a hearing on Isaacman’s nomination.