Audrey Powers, an Attorney and Aerospace Engineer is the Blue Origin’s Vice President of Mission and Flight Operations.
Blue Origin is an American privately-funded aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company.
The goal of Blue Origin company is to make access to space cheaper and more reliable through reusable launch vehicles.
Who is Audrey Powers Blue Origin?
Audrey Powers is the wife of a famous Canadian actor William Shatner. He is also an author, producer, director, screenwriter, and singer.
On 4 October 2021, it was announced that Blue Origin’s Vice President of Mission & Flight Operations, Audrey Powers, and her husband William Shatner, would fly onboard New Shepard NS-18.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced it on Monday. They will join crewmates Chris Boshuizen and Glen de Vries for the flight, which lifts off on October 12 from Launch Site One.
Audrey joined Blue Origin in 2013 and has been working there for 8 years. Blue Origin company is headquartered in Kent Washington.
She has supervised all New Shepard mission and flight operations, vehicle maintenance, launch, landing, and ground support infrastructure.
Audrey played a lead role in the multi-year process to certify New Shepard for human flight in collaboration with New Shepard’s Safety & Mission Assurance team, Test & Flight Operations, Chief Engineers, and external partners.
Before this, she worked as a Vice President of Legal & Compliance for Blue Origin, overseeing a wide variety of legal, regulatory, and policy matters from March 2019 to May 2021.
From November 2013 till March 2019, she served her role as a Deputy General Counsel for 5 and a half years.
Audrey Powers Husband: William Shatner
Audrey Powers’s husband, William Shatner is known for his iconic portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise.
William played the role of Captain Kirk in seven of the Star Trek movies, one of which he directed.
He has wanted to travel to space for a long and will become the oldest person to have flown to space at the age of 90 years.
He has been pretending to live in space since the 1960s in the movies, now he finally gets to fulfill his wish.
William Shatner is currently the host and executive producer of The UnXplained on The History Channel, exploring the world’s most fascinating, strange, and inexplicable mysteries.
Audrey Powers on Wikipedia: How much is her Net Worth?
Audrey Powers has yet to be featured by Wikipedia on its official page. But her growing fame can be found in various sources.
Some of the information related to her traveling to space is given above.
Audrey went to Santa Clara University School of Law in Santa Clara, CA, from 2005 to 2008to study law.
Before that, she went to Purdue University West Lafayette from 1994 to 1999 to study Aeronautical/Astronautical Engineering.
Audrey’s Networth has not been disclosed yet. But being the Vice President of Mission and Flight Operations, she must have a hefty paycheck.
But her husband, William Shatner’s Net worth, is estimated to be around $100 million dollars as of 2021.