TIME honors SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell: From employee No. 7 to world’s most valuable company

Gwynne Shotwell Leads the World's Most Valuable Company

The SpaceX president and COO spoke with TIME just days after the company merged with xAI, making it the world's most valuable private company.

TIME honors SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell: From employee No. 7 to world’s most valuable company

TIME Magazine has put SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell on its cover, and the timing could not be more fitting. Published today, the profile of Shotwell arrives at a moment when the company she has quietly run for more than two decades stands at the center of the most consequential developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, and the future of human civilization. Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002 as its seventh employee and has never …

SpaceX's Gwynne Shotwell Aims to Put AI on the Moon

There are 18 Starship spacecraft in various stages of construction arrayed across the 1-million-sq.-ft floor of the SpaceX factory in Starbase, Texas. Some of them are, for now, just stainless-steel barrels measuring nearly 30 ft. across. Others have already been assembled and outfitted with their tapered nosecones, and are ready to be stacked atop a first-stage booster, taking final shape as SpaceX’s 40-story Starship rockets. Eleven uncrewed S…

SpaceX: Shotwell and Beyond?

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell Aims to Put AI on the Moon Inside a sprawling Texas factory, SpaceX is building its most powerful rockets yet, with the goal of returning humans to the moon. At the center of it all is Gwynne Shotwell. Find out how she became one of the most influential figures […]

SpaceX Starlink Satellite and Launch Plans from Shotwell

Gwynne Shotwell of SpaceX was featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Humans on lunar surface before 2030. HLS (Human Landing System) planned ready by 2028, though much must go right. Starlink Constellation Size has ~10,000 Starlink satellites launched and [high speed internet] likely cap 15,000–20,000. There has been a separate FCC filing for 15000 ...