During the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover in 2022, Nasa administrator Bill Nelson was starting to worry.
He summoned Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, the agency’s most important partner. “Tell me that the distraction that Elon might have on Twitter is not going to affect SpaceX,” he recalled asking.
Shotwell told him that he had nothing to worry about. “I hugged her with a smile on my face, because I know she is running that thing,” he said, adding later that she was “one of the most important decisions [Musk] ever made”.
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