Audrey Powers

{{Short description|American aerospace executive}}

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Audrey Powers is the vice president of mission and flight operations of American aerospace and spaceflight company Blue Origin.{{Cite news|last=Howell|first=Elizabeth|date=2021-10-12|title=Blue Origin's Audrey Powers is 'proud and humbled to fly' in space|work=Space.com|url=https://www.space.com/blue-origin-audrey-powers-launching-with-william-shatner|access-date=2021-10-16}} On October 13, 2021, Powers accompanied William Shatner along with two other space tourists on a New Shepard rocket as part of the Blue Origin NS-18 mission into space.{{cite web|date=12 October 2021|title=New Shepard NS-18: Mission Updates|url=https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-18-mission-updates|access-date=12 October 2021|work=Blue Origin}}

She received a Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical engineering from Purdue University and worked then as an engineer. As a guidance and controls engineer, she was a flight controller for NASA with 2000 hours of console time in Mission Control for the International Space Station Program. While supporting government satellite programs for Lockheed Martin, Ms. Powers received a Juris Doctor in 2008 from Santa Clara University School of Law. She currently works as a lawyer. {{cite web | url=https://swfsummit.org/audrey-powers | title=Audrey Powers }}