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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman showed a mysterious aircraft during the portion of his All-In Summit presentation on rebuilding NASA’s X-plane portfolio ✈️

• Isaacman showed a dark silhouette resembling a next-generation SR-71 Blackbird while discussing 'radical airframe and… pic.twitter.com/VNEDExk8K0

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• Isaacman showed a dark silhouette resembling a next-generation SR-71 Blackbird while discussing ‘radical airframe and engine designs’

• When asked if the image was the Blackbird, he responded: “You sure that’s the Blackbird?”

• NASA will soon be ‘flying once again as high and as fast as we have from decades past, and then even more’

• He criticized NASA being forced to spend its aeronautics budget subsidizing 40-year-old contractor engines instead of pushing technological boundaries

NASA’s job from the start was supposed to be the latter, not the former, of that last item.