What's your evidence for that? For all the bellyflop tests Elon was certainly around, SpaceX was clearly iterating quickly then.
https://www.nasa.gov/content/national-space-council-users-ad...
In general though, Musk is the CEO and lead engineer and it really feels like people talk up Shotwell's contribution as a childish way of downplaying Musk's.
"Elon Musk: The Fake Engineer" - https://www.processindustryinformer.com/elon-musk-the-fake-e...
poorly sourced hit pieces aside, go watch an interview where elon walks a journalist engineer through a tesla plant or spacex facility. he clearly knows the engineering that's happening there and there's even videos of him using autocad/solidworks/whatever in a manner that clearly demonstrates he's familiar with the software. Does he sit there designing some small piece of hardware in autocad for months at a time? No, but that also doesn't mean he's not an engineer.
- "...Another area of controversy concerns the appearance and nature of the physics degree, specifically. Certificates of both a Penn economics degree and an alleged physics degree are included in documents filed as part of the O'Reilly and Eberhard lawsuits. While the economics diploma filed as evidence specifically indicates the academic discipline, name, and other details involved in the degree, the physics diploma appears to be a largely blank diploma and indicates no specific concentration..."
- "...The University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy does describe Musk as an alumnus. In 2009 — the same year the dispute with Eberhard was litigated — Musk gave Penn's Center for Particle Cosmology a "generous endowment" allowing for an annual "Elon Musk Public Lecture"..."
- " Musk's past statements about his educational background, however, have been, at best, imprecise. He has claimed on several occasions to have received a physics degree in 1995 — a claim that was never fully true but which may have aided Musk's early business career..."
If anyone doubts: https://twitter.com/pwnsdx/status/1605442608603463680
Musk suggests rewriting all of Twitter, can't answer any basic questions about the tech stack, gets angry when challenged on technical specifics.
Yes, especially after watching his extremely in depth interviews with Tim Dodd abou the Starship program.
Do you have some reason to think he didn't, other than the fact that you don't like him? I am already aware that he, like most engineers in the US, does not have an engineering degree.
Aerospace engineering actually requires you to do years of study for a reason. This isn't engineering a cute little website for your company, this is, as I said, literally rocket science. Your measurements and calculations have to be extremely precise and that knowledge doesn't magically sprout out of nowhere.
> I am already aware that he, like most engineers in the US, does not have an engineering degree.
Bold claim. I'm sure you have a source. And even if you did, I'm pretty sure aerospace engineering would be an exception rather than the rule. But I highly doubt this claim in the first place.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...