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GWYNNE SHOTWELL. SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell reacts during a keynote conference at the 2026 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2026.

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Gwynne Shotwell, who has spent 24 years focused on building and selling SpaceX through her engineering expertise and dealmaking instincts, developed a more elusive skill: managing Elon Musk himself

When SpaceX goes public on Friday, June 12, with what is expected to be a record-setting IPO, it will cap two decades of founder and CEO Elon Musk’s ambition to transform rocketry, satellite communications and humanity’s reach into space.