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Pat Hynes

Cocktails with Dan Goldin

March 17, 2016

Cocktails with the NASA Administrator Twenty two years ago I met the NASA Administrator Dan Goldin for a cocktail at the Hotel Encanto. He was here for one of the Delta Clipper tests. The Delta Clipper or DC-X program was funded by Department of Defense the contractor was MacDonald Douglas. The DC-X, short for Delta […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, Delta Clipper, NASA, New Mexico SpaceGrant Consortium, White Sands Test Facility

We Are Creating the Next Space Billionaires

August 12, 2014

The billionaire space industry investors prefer going to the large space labs, like the Jet Propulsion lab to see how spacecraft are being built and meet with the lead scientist or engineers on the projects and discuss their own research. Paul Allen who is funding the construction of a small satellite launcher called the Stratolauncher […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Delta Clipper, Mojave Air and Spaceport, NASA, New Blogs

The Delta Clipper legacy lives on in New Mexico

August 22, 2013

On Friday, August 16th, once again I found myself setting the alarm for 3:30am to get to Spaceport America for a meeting that started at 8am. This trip was to attend the 20th Anniversary of the first Delta Clipper X, DC-X flight. In 1993, the McDonnell Douglas team, led by Dr. William Gaubatz and astronaut […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, Delta Clipper, Land of Enchantment, NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR, XPRIZE

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