POT plays well with private property SpaceXbut is that something to worry about? an interview with NPR, POT Director Bill Nelson allays any fears of an unsupervised situation. Elon Musk run a space agency reminding us that SpaceX It is actually run by its president Gwynne Shotwell. Nelson trusts Shotwell to protect SpaceX from Elon Musk fever dreams, often irrational, and thus protect the billions of US tax dollars awarded to SpaceX in government contracts from their wayward spending, too.
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Nelson, a former senator from Florida, was very frank in his distrust of Musk before assuming the role of director of NASA. According to the former POT Assistant Principal Lori Garver’s book, Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Garver says Nelson “led the opposition” to SpaceX while he was still a senator. His opposition was directed primarily at musk Eccentric ways and volatile behavior as leadership of a company that could potentially have global impact. According to Futurism,
”Elon Musk’s decision making has come under a lot of scrutiny in recent years when it comes to some of his other companies, Twitter. and Tesla,” asked interviewer Scott Detrow. “Are you concerned that much of this plan is in the hands of Elon Musk at this point?”
“Elon Musk…one of the most important decisions he made, in fact, is that he chose a president named Gwynne. Shotwell,” Nelson objected. “She runs SpaceX. She is excellent. That’s why I don’t have any worries.”
This is not the first time the NASA director and former Florida senator has expressed similar sentiments.
A few months after Musk bought Twitter (although before he disastrously renamed it “X”), in late 2022, Nelson told to NBC News his relief in discussing the acquisition with the president of SpaceX.
“Tell me the distraction Elon might have on Twitter isn’t going to affect SpaceX,” Nelson recalled when asking Shotwell.
In response, she apparently told him that he had not harmed the space flight company and that he had “nothing” to worry about.”
“I hugged her with a smile on my face, because I know she is running that thing,” the NASA director continued. running SpaceX.”
Shotwell currently manages all operations of SpaceX. She has been a SpaceX Employed since 2002, and before that she was director of space systems at Microcosm, a spacecraft developer. Fortune Magazine List of the 50 best leaders in the world in 2018 and Forbes‘ list of Powerful Women in 2017, and has won medals and awards for her achievements in the world of aeronautics. Knowing that a woman of such intelligence and strength is in charge of SpaceX gives Nelson and many other people (including this writer) some comfort and reassurance.
This article originally appeared in Jalopnik.
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