Superstar Elon Musk dominates public attention whenever SpaceX makes news. He founded the company, but he doesn't actually run it anymore. Elon gets headlines, but there's an engineer who runs it.
Gwynne Shotwell is President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX.
Elon hired her way back in 2002. As Director of Business Development, she successfully negotiated the contract (2008) with NASA to deliver commercial resupply services to the International Space Station. Promotion to the position of president followed.
Gwynne is a superstar herself. She led the effort to build the Falcon rocket. Under her leadership, SpaceX was the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft and send one to the ISS . . plus all the recent SpaceX achievements.
from Wikipedia
(cont'd tomorrow)
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