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SpaceX’s Shotwell Says US Regulators Must ‘Go Faster’
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SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell fired off fresh criticism at US regulators on Friday, saying rocket launch approvals need to catch up with the pace her company is innovating.
“Technology is easy. Physics is easy. People are hard, and regulator people are the hardest,” Shotwell told a conference hosted by Baron Capital in New York on Friday. “All we ask is: regulate industries. Make them safe, make them right, make them fair. But we’ve got to go faster. Much faster.”