Gwynne Shotwell is president and chief operating officer of the aerospace company, SpaceX. She is a four-time Wash100 award winner and is recognized for driving innovation in the aerospace ...

Gwynne Shotwell, Elon Musk's second-in-command at SpaceX, once accused an employee of having an affair with her husband, The Wall Street Journal reported. It cited the SpaceX employee's account to ...

Jenny Hontz (J93) is a freelance writer in Los Angeles. Editor’s Note: Gwynne Rowley Shotwell (McC86, GMcC88) will receive an Alumni Merit Award at the Northwestern Alumni Association awards dinner in ...

Elon Musk runs two big, crazy companies: Tesla and SpaceX. At SpaceX, he has a strong operator, Gwynne Shotwell, who makes life easier. At Tesla, however, he has no No. 2. But that doesn't mean he ...

Shotwell was employee No. 11 in 2002 when she joined SpaceX, a company founded to lower the cost of space travel and enable the colonization of other planets. Today, SpaceX has grown to more than ...

Elon Musk may be the public face of SpaceX, but it’s Shotwell who calls the shots day-to-day. SpaceX has become the most accomplished player in a growing world of commercial rocket ventures ...