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| - | Trump’s unconventional NASA pick signals Mars intentions in confirmation hearing | + | ‘Americans kickstarted the resurrection’: Now Italians are snapping up $1 homes for themselves |
| - | President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention to create a new focus on Mars exploration. | + | |
| - | A confirmation hearing for Isaacman — the billionaire CEO of payments platform company Shift4 who has twice paid to fly aboard SpaceX capsules — kicked off before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation at 10 a.m. ET. The committee is not expected to vote on Isaacman’s confirmation until after lawmakers reconvene from a two-week break that ends April 28. | + | Of the many depopulated Italian towns to launch bargain home schemes in recent years, none have been more successful than Sicily’s Sambuca di Sicilia. |
| - | During the hearing, Isaacman faced wide-ranging questions about how NASA’s priorities might change under his leadership. | + | Sambuca’s home sell-offs have seen huge demand, with American buyers rushing to snap up discounted houses in the hillside town for a symbolic €1 in 2019 and €2 in 2021. |
| - | For months, the space agency and its commercial and international partners have faced uncertainty about how the Trump administration may seek to realign NASA’s missions to focus on Mars, rather than the moon. | + | Previously largely unknown, even to some Italians, Sambuca has since welcomed so many Americans that it’s been nicknamed “Italy’s Little America.” |
| - | If such a shift plays out, it could lead to changes for NASA’s Artemis program, which was announced during Trump’s first term and marked a renewed focus on lunar exploration. The Artemis I mission, for example, sent a crew-worthy spacecraft on a test flight around | + | But according |
| + | “Something weird happened with this third batch of auctioned homes; we thought more Americans would apply, so we were amazed that for the first time ever it was mainly Italians from all over Italy,” Cacioppo tells CNN. | ||
| - | Notably, however, Mars has long been the destination | + | Sambuca |
| - | Currently, NASA does not have any concrete plans to send humans to the red planet, though | + | In both past editions, the number of requests, mostly from the US, to purchase neglected homes was so high that local authorities had to place the old abandoned properties at auction. |
| - | However, Isaacman told the committee he will “prioritize sending American astronauts to Mars.” | + | |
| - | “Along the way, we will inevitably have the capabilities | + | While some bidders opted to snap up abandoned ruins, over a hundred Americans purchased ready-to-occupy homes from locals, revitalizing |