NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaks at the Off World conference in Houston Sept. 23.Credit:SpaceNews/Jeff Foust

HOUSTON — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency “dodged a bullet” with the unexpected delay in a Chinese lunar mission as the United States races China to land the next humans on the moon.

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Jeff Foust

Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...More by Jeff Foust