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Re:Space Transportation System by aurailious on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:01PM (#18276308)
SpaceX will be fine without Elon if that ever has to happen. Gwynne Shotwell is very capable of leading it.
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Re:Space Transportation System by tomp on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:22PM (#18276480)
Paraphrasing another comment I read sometime ago: Gwynne is very capable of managing the operations, but would SpaceX really be landing rockets on drone ships if it wasn't Elon pushing for it?
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Re:Space Transportation System by bduerst on Monday October 22, 2018 @01:59PM (#18276806)
Yes? Shotwell was the 11th employee of SpaceX, and isn't CEO of multiple other companies.
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Re:Space Transportation System by cgdcraig on Monday October 22, 2018 @11:14PM (#18280468)
Elon has always been one of the main drivers of innovation over there, Gwenn has been the one keeping stuff afloat but Elon has been the one driving the "the hell I'm paying that much for a piece, I'll make it myself" culture as well as the iterative process.
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