Duffy, also the Transportation Secretary, has no space background, but has been an MTV reality star and a congressman.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has taken the reins of the future of Penn Station and we, as close chroniclers of the pitfalls of Penn for decades, shout with great enthusiasm: “Go, sir, go!” The ...

Sean Duffy, U.S. secretary of transportation, during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2025. Credit - Eric Lee—Bloomberg Finance LP/Getty Images The people tapped to run NASA have ...

The people tapped to run NASA have often been scientists, engineers, academics, or government officials. The agency’s new interim head, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, brings a different sort of ...