A birthday present for the president
Happy birthday to @SpaceX! What a day!
HUGE congratulations to the entire team for this incredible day: clean count (glad the shrimpers could get out in the nick of time!), liftoff, hot staging, Super Heavy boost back and coast (and likely a couple engines making mainstage… pic.twitter.com/D3YUPIgKNH
— Gwynne Shotwell (@Gwynne_Shotwell) March 14, 2024
The third test flight of Starship occurred on March 14, which happened to be Pi Day and the 22nd anniversary of SpaceX’s founding. Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX president and chief operating officer, shared her congratulations on X, while making note of the anniversary. Musk, the company CEO, typically gets all the glory when it comes to SpaceX’s successes, but Shotwell, who’s been with the company for over 20 years, deserves a ton of credit. That said, she needs to be better when it comes to acknowledging alleged cases of sexism and sexual harassment at the company.
