SpaceX President Defends Elon Musk Over Sexual Misconduct Claims

SpaceX President Defends Elon Musk Over Sexual Misconduct Claims
Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 2, 2022. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
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The president and COO of SpaceX has defended the aerospace company’s CEO Elon Musk against allegations of sexual misconduct in an email to employees, according to CNBC.

According to an email allegedly obtained by CNBC, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell addressed the allegations that first emerged in a Business Insiders report denounced by Musk as “utterly untrue” and a “politically motivated hit piece.”

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