Rocket Company's New President

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on December 18, 2008 6:12 PM | | Comments (0) |

Space Exploration Technologies, the Hawthorne-based developer of low-cost rockets, named Gwynne Shotwell as president, effective immediately, the company said Thursday.

In her new position, Shotwell will be part of the company's Office of the Chairman and CEO and report to Elon Musk, CEO and chief technology officer.

The company better known as SpaceX achieved its first successful rocket launch in September. The privately-held firm has hundreds of millions of dollars in government and commercial contracts.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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