WASHINGTON, April 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate

Commerce Committee on Wednesday voted to advance President

Donald Trump's nominees to head NASA and to serve as

commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission.

Trump's pick to head the space agency entrepreneur Jared

Isaacman, CEO of payment processing company Shift4 Payments ( FOUR )

, is a close partner of Elon Musk's SpaceX who has flown

to space twice as a private astronaut on the company's

spacecraft.

The panel also approved the nomination of Olivia Trusty, a

Senate aide, who would give Republicans three votes on the

five-member FCC.