@rodhilton Fortunately for the astronauts that depend...

@rodhilton Fortunately for the astronauts that depend on SpaceX rockets to carry them to and from the International Space Station, the SpaceX company is run by President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell who leads an excellent team of engineers. The loudmouth CEO has little to do with the day-to-day design and building of the rockets.

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Dani — MLT(ASCP)

@EricFielding
@rodhilton
Seconding this mostly. He has had zero hand in any engineering at SpaceX. I'm pretty sure he's had a lil' bit of input on the culture and some of the weirder ideas, but that's about it.

If our relationship with Russia were to ever normalize again (lol) I'd still trust Soyuz over Dragon but that's just me.

25 Dec 2022 at 9:24 | Open on infosec.exchange

K`Tetch

@warkittens @EricFielding @rodhilton yeah, I've head that spaceX basically has people who's job is just to distract him and take him on tangents so he'll leave the productive people alone.

25 Dec 2022 at 10:31 | Open on mastodon.online

Kirsty

@warkittens @EricFielding @rodhilton he probably chose the shape of their rockets.

25 Dec 2022 at 11:42 | Open on aus.social

Waffles

@EricFielding @rodhilton soooooo... he's not gonna strap rockets to a Tesla to make them hover cars? 🤣

25 Dec 2022 at 11:01 | Open on mastodon.cloud

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