Space operations used to be the domain of governments only. But now there's a big private sector. In the private, non-government space business, there's no more important name than Gwynne Shotwell, President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX.
Super celebrity Elon
Musk hired her as an engineer 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 to orbit and recover a spacecraft and send one to the ISS . . plus all the recent SpaceX achievements.
Test flight #8 of Starship may take place today, depending on conditions.
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