{"id":301507,"date":"2026-03-26T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/?p=301507"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:15:09","slug":"gwynne-shotwell-time-magazine-moon-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/gwynne-shotwell-time-magazine-moon-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME honors SpaceX&#8217;s Gwynne Shotwell: From employee No. 7 to world&#8217;s most valuable company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Shotwell joined SpaceX in 2002 as its seventh employee and has never stopped expanding her role. She oversees day-to-day operations across multiple executive teams spanning Falcon, Starlink, Starship, and now xAI following SpaceX&#8217;s February 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-officially-acquires-xai-merging-rockets-with-ai-expertise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">merger with Elon Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence company<\/a>, a deal that made SpaceX the world&#8217;s most valuable private company at a reported valuation of $1.25 trillion. A highly anticipated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/elon-musk-confirms-spacex-ipo-on-the-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IPO is expected<\/a> in the second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jCIkN1UVFS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/will-tesla-join-fold-predicting-triple-merger-spacex-xai\/\">Will Tesla join the fold? Predicting a triple merger with SpaceX and xAI<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Will Tesla join the fold? Predicting a triple merger with SpaceX and xAI&#8221; &#8212; TESLARATI\" src=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/will-tesla-join-fold-predicting-triple-merger-spacex-xai\/embed\/#?secret=KCu2CJhR8F#?secret=jCIkN1UVFS\" data-secret=\"jCIkN1UVFS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Her track record is historic. She oversaw the first landing of an orbital rocket&#8217;s first stage, the first reuse and re-landing of an orbital booster, and the first private crewed launch to Earth orbit in May 2020. She built the Falcon launch manifest from nothing to more than 170 contracted missions representing over $20 billion in business. Under her operational leadership, SpaceX completed 96 successful missions in 2023 alone and has now flown more than 20 crewed Falcon 9 missions. Starlink, which she championed as a financial pillar of the company long before it was a mainstream topic, now connects tens of millions of users worldwide and provided a critical communications lifeline to Ukraine following the 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk has never been shy about what Shotwell means to him and to SpaceX. When she shared her vision for worldwide internet connectivity through Starlink, Musk responded on X with a simple statement, &#8220;Gwynne is awesome.&#8221; It is a sentiment that has been echoed across the industry. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson once said of Musk: &#8220;One of the most important decisions he made, as a matter of fact, is he picked a president named Gwynne Shotwell. She runs SpaceX. She is excellent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gwynne is awesome <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tiXtMWJmPE\">https:\/\/t.co\/tiXtMWJmPE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1839932033000452269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nNow, with Starship targeting its first crewed lunar landing under the Artemis program by 2028, an xAI integration underway, and a pending IPO that could reshape capital markets, Shotwell&#8217;s mandate has never been larger. <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/03\/26\/gwynne-shotwell-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She told Time<\/a> that 18 Starships are already in various stages of construction at Starbase. &#8220;By 2028,&#8221; she said, gesturing across the factory floor, &#8220;these should be long gone. 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