Jeff Foust continued posting notes on Twitter for the afternoon sessions at the Goddard Memorial Symposium (see earlier item). Here is a compilation of his postings:

/-- Greason says we need to elevate the level of debate about the new NASA policy. Not hearing a lot if substance so far.
/-- Greason: Constellation showed if you wanted to redo Apollo with Apollo-era tech, also needed Apollo-era budgets, which NASA wasn't getting.
/-- Greason: Sooner or later Constellation was going to be canceled. Regrettable, [but] when you're in a hole, stop digging.
/-- Greason: with FlexPath we can start missions beyond LEO sooner, "start putting runs on the scoreboard" while dev systems needed for Moon.

/-- Brett Alexander, starting comm'l panel: new plan is a leap ahead for human spaceflight. It's about getting the rest of us in space.

/-- Mike Gold: Bigelow has invested >$180M of his own money in Bigelow Aerospace. Needs comm'l crew to get a return on that investment.
/-- Gold: don't need to rely on so-called "untried" companies: a Boeing-built capsule on an Atlas 5 meets our needs.

/-- Larry Williams: thinks a "Netscape moment" is coming for space, but for SpaceX "hope we turn out to be Google and not Netscape".
/-- Williams: "spin start" abort during F9 test firing happens frequently in tests in Texas; "not a big issue". [My emphasis]
/-- Williams: could do Falcon 9 launch as soon as end of this month, but more likely April or May. "We'll launch when we're ready."
/-- Williams: no discussion with NASA about exercising their COTS-D option; assuming they'll do separate competition for comm'l crew.

/-- Gold: expect 1st big market for Bigelow to be biotech, then gov'ts looking to stretch space budgets.
/-- Gold sees the "sweet spot" for pricing for comm'l crew to be somewhere in the $mid-20M range.