{"id":130351,"date":"2021-11-10T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/gwynne-shotwell-meet-the-woman-behind-spacex"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T23:22:19","slug":"gwynne-shotwell-meet-the-woman-behind-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/gwynne-shotwell-meet-the-woman-behind-spacex","title":{"rendered":"Gwynne Shotwell: Meet the Woman Behind SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gwynne-shotwell-meet-the-woman-behind-spacex2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GGwynne Shotwell: Meet the Woman Behind <a href=\"https:\/\/complexob7.com\/category\/spacex\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"SpaceX\">SpaceX<\/a>: <\/strong>There\u2019s a proverb that says behind every great man is a great woman. That is certainly true of SpaceX. <a href=\"https:\/\/complexob7.com\/amazing-facts-about-elon-musk-you-probably-didnt-know\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Elon Musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> may be the most recognizable face of his aerospace company. But his right-hand woman is Gwynne Shotwell.<\/p>\n<p>Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX. She manages the day-to-day operations and the growth of the firm. In other words \u2013 she\u2019s in charge of selling <a href=\"https:\/\/complexob7.com\/the-evolution-of-space-rockets\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"59\" title=\"Rockets\">rockets<\/a> and dealing with Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike a lot of other SpaceX employees who grew up fascinated by rockets, she wasn\u2019t. When she was five and her neurosurgeon father gathered the family around a TV to watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 11 moon landing<\/a>, she found it boring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GGwynne Shotwell: Meet the Woman Behind SpaceX: There\u2019s a proverb that says behind every great man is a great woman. That is certainly true of SpaceX. Elon Musk may be the most recognizable face of his aerospace company. But his right-hand woman is Gwynne Shotwell. Shotwell is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}