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Here at day two of #CST2022, BryceTech CEO Carissa Christensen is moderating a conversation with Blue Origin CEO Bob Smith and VP Audrey Powers, the latter who flew to space on New Shepard last year. 
@csf_spaceflight @AudreyKPowers @BryceSpaceTech @blueorigin Powers, asked about her spaceflight experience, says she doesn't think Blue Origin would have achieved what it did last year "without the work of this industry" and its partnerships with the FAA, NASA, and more.
@csf_spaceflight @AudreyKPowers @BryceSpaceTech @blueorigin Powers: "We've learned so much about the market" for New Shepard "in this year."
"I knew everything that was going to happen on" her spaceflight but "there were still things that were exciting and new."
"I knew everything that was going to happen on" her spaceflight but "there were still things that were exciting and new."
The FAA is awarding Commercial Space Astronaut Wings to members of the Blue Origin crews NS-16, NS-18, and NS-19. #CST2022
Wally Funk is here to get her wings:
Wally Funk is here to get her wings:
The NS-18 crew, with the family of the late Glen de Vries here to receive his wings posthumously:
And the NS-19 crew gets their wings:
Rocket Lab $RKLB SVP Lars Hoffman takes the #CST2022 stage:
@RocketLab Hoffman: "We are opening up our Wallops launch site for business this year. We expect that business to pick up quite a bit in the coming years."
@RocketLab Hoffman: Rocket Lab will also launch the first mission from its second New Zealand pad "very soon," planning for "this spring."
NASA administrator Bill Nelson is now speaking at the #CST2022 conference:
@SenBillNelson Nelson, introduced as a person who has flown to space, opens his comments by joking: "My critics wished that I had gone on a one way mission."
@SenBillNelson Nelson calls out the recent DART launch as a NASA mission that particularly "got people's attention."
FAA commercial space office leader Wayne Monteith says "nothing else comes between public safety and getting our job done," showing a photo of the 2016 SpaceX Amos-6 incident.
"A pretty catastrophic event [but] nobody was hurt ... that's what we do." #CST2022
"A pretty catastrophic event [but] nobody was hurt ... that's what we do." #CST2022
Monteith: "Last year we licensed 8 human spaceflight missions -- that's more than the [total] launches we licensed in 2012."
Monteith: "What a year" 2021 was for human spaceflight. "Business is tremendous" and FAA sees the number of private crewed launches each year continuing to increase, referencing this week's Polaris Program announcement.
