Category talk:SpaceX people

And more people...
Starting a list here of notable SpaceX folks, people who are at least sufficiently notable to have had press in reliable source media about them, but not already in the category for having an extant BLP article about them. N2e (talk) 02:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)


 * added two more.  N2e (talk) 02:07, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

In no particular order:


 * Joy Dunn—Senior Manager for Dragon Manufacturing Engineering, leads team of about 65 engineers who build and integrate Dragon spacecraft., December 2015.


 * Jeff Thornburg—Principal propulsion engineer for Raptor engine development after 2011, and SpaceX senior director of propulsion engineering until late 2015. Led development of the Raptor engine, and later all propulsion development, at SpaceX 2011–2015.  and still referring to 2011)  Sources from June & December 2015, and August 2018.


 * Paul Wooster--SpaceX's principal Mars development engineer;, 2018 -- , 2018, , 2017; and another, from 2018, in this diff.
 * Wooster presented a talk at the Mars Society 2018 meetings this month: 21st Annual Mars Society Convention, 25 August 2018. Redundant link here. Teslarati brief article here:   Business Insider Australia article: A top SpaceX engineer has revealed new details — and questions — about the company's plans to reach Mars in 6 years, 2 September 2018. The BI article is the most thorough secondary source article yet on Wooster's talk; and includes some info about a Q&A session Wooster had afterwards, not included in the previous video; plus includes a link to the video from this source.


 * Margarita Marinova--senior Mars development engineer, 2018. [UPDATE:  as of August 2018, someone has created this article.]


 * Charles Kuehmann -- "vice president of materials engineering for both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Kuehmann talked about the companies’ missions – displacing the combustion engine, as Tesla strives to do, and bringing colonists to Mars, which is SpaceX’s goal." Both companies use "a technique called integrated computational materials engineering (ICME), where they design a part and material together using process simulation software along with material modeling capabilities to create the whole system. ... 'One of the benefits of working in both groups is that we can utilize people across those teams,' said Kuehmann., Composites Manufacturing Magazine, 17 October 2018.


 * Bret Johnsen -- CFO of SpaceX in c. 2019-2021. Seems involved/heading all the land and marine vessel (former oil platforms to be modified for Super Heavy Starship floating launch platforms) work at SpaceX, in addition to CFO duties more generally. bio, seems to have been CFO since 2016, Port of Los Angeles facilities restart in 2020], N2e (talk) 15:49, 19 January 2021 (UTC)