{"id":695776,"date":"2026-06-10T14:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695776\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:44:09","slug":"19-things-to-know-about-gwynne-shotwell-spacexs-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/695776\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Things to Know About Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX\u2019s President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eku5yup0\">Gwynne Shotwell, one of the first executives hired by Elon Musk at SpaceX, has helped build it into one of the world\u2019s <a data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/spacex-ipo-charts-graphs-9144ec5e?mod=article_inline\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ekxajjj0 css-i0lbhy-OverridedLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">most valuable companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\" data=\"[object Object]\" class=\"css-1qg6i2u eku5yup0\">Shotwell is an engineer who has been SpaceX\u2019s president since 2008. She has overseen the development of SpaceX\u2019s rockets, run its day-to-day operations and worked alongside Musk for over two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2014culled from interviews, speeches and published reports\u2014are 19 things to know about her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-16aepit e1jdulti0\">Copyright \u00a92026 Dow Jones &amp; Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gwynne Shotwell, one of the first executives hired by Elon Musk at SpaceX, has helped build it into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[163,301499,301493,301494,161351,161234,161232,55387,161228,6052,161233,160855,260298,185324,161239,301496,301497,301498,3899,301495,5476,301500,79,195182,193,9176,20719,20720,301492],"class_list":["post-695776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aerospace","tag-aerospace-products","tag-aerospace-products-parts","tag-aerospace-defense","tag-ce-executive-news-filter","tag-ce-industry-news-filter","tag-content-types","tag-corporate","tag-corporate-industrial-news","tag-defense","tag-factiva-filters","tag-gcapi","tag-gwynne-shotwell","tag-industrial-goods","tag-industrial-news","tag-linkendrnrealtime-linkedarticle-dnco20260610004087","tag-linki1-wp-wsj-0003645635","tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003645635","tag-management","tag-management-moves","tag-manufacturing","tag-parts","tag-science","tag-senior-level-management","tag-space","tag-spacecraft","tag-synd","tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com","tag-wsj-versioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}