Ah the old hater line. Always good to see that the classics never go out of style.
Gwynne Shotwell herself of course wouldn't agree with this line of argument, go listen to interviews with her.
Shotwell makes no claim that she was driving force behind Falcon 1 or Falcon 9, she just took over company management when Falcon 9 was already started flying and Musk was in full control of Falcon 9 development.
As she herself said, its easy to sell a rocket that beats competition by a huge margin, has incredibly high reliability and a high launch rate.
The same goes for govenrment contracts, if you bid almost 40% lower because you just have better technology and better engineering processes, something Shotwell was never responsible for, you have a huge advantage.
Shotwell is of course great, a fantastic operator, and of course she was hand picked by Musk for that roll. He put here in position to manage day to day operations so he could focus on the most important engineering projects.
So even if your claim is true that Shotwell runs SpaceX, Musk would still get a lot of credit.
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Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX. Elon just takes credit for it.
Ah the old hater line. Always good to see that the classics never go out of style.
Gwynne Shotwell herself of course wouldn't agree with this line of argument, go listen to interviews with her.
Shotwell makes no claim that she was driving force behind Falcon 1 or Falcon 9, she just took over company management when Falcon 9 was already started flying and Musk was in full control of Falcon 9 development.
As she herself said, its easy to sell a rocket that beats competition by a huge margin, has incredibly high reliability and a high launch rate.
The same goes for govenrment contracts, if you bid almost 40% lower because you just have better technology and better engineering processes, something Shotwell was never responsible for, you have a huge advantage.
Shotwell is of course great, a fantastic operator, and of course she was hand picked by Musk for that roll. He put here in position to manage day to day operations so he could focus on the most important engineering projects.
So even if your claim is true that Shotwell runs SpaceX, Musk would still get a lot of credit.
Better a hater than a groveling syncophant.