NASA's top candidate for its still-open administrator position has been thrown under the bus by the Trump administration. As Ars Technica reports, the White House has pulled its nomination for billionaire fighter jet pilot-turned-SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman. While the reasoning behind the eyebrow-raising move remains unclear at best — a White House spokesperson said he wasn't loyal enough to Trump — the timing of the announcement comes just days after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that he had "significantly" reduced his involvement in politics. The mercurial CEO arrived at his own goodbye party last week with a black eye, which […]