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anon0937 t1_j0mm0ic wrote

Reply to comment by Lego_Eagle in SpaceX, Blue Origin Executives Tapped as US Space Council Advisers by Soupjoe5

People hate Gwynne Shotwell??? Since when?

Edit: My bad, she's COO and president. Too many titles floating around.

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toodroot t1_j0n4avu wrote

Here you go, an attack on her from later in this discussion:

> And yet Shotwell sounds completely unaware of the basics of space in every public appearance.

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jivatman t1_j0ndodr wrote

Weird stuff. Bezos actually put in huge effort to poach her for Blue Origin while he hangs out on his superyacht.. Wonder what that says about his space knowledge.

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toodroot t1_j0nfoa6 wrote

Bezos has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He probably knows enough to do what he's doing with Blue Origin -- he hired Rob Meyerson to lead Blue Origin in 2003, 3 years after founding it.

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swords-and-boreds t1_j0nk2gu wrote

What do those have to do with aeronautics? Bezos has no formal training in rocketry. He’s about as qualified as I am with my computer engineering undergrad degree.

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