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Pat Hynes

It does not matter who gets the credit

August 16, 2016

It does not matter who gets the credit I’ve heard this and I don’t buy it. People who work hard want credit for the results of their work. Money is not the solution either. Sometimes a thank you works best, so thank you Christine Anderson. Milton Glaser is the Creator of the ubiquitous I heart […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Boeing, International Space Station (ISS)

The Gambler

June 1, 2016

The Gamblers Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Got it! Yet, we live in one town, one house, and are supposed to keep faith with one spouse. I have two bird nests at my house. One belongs to a pair of sparrows. They built their outpost on top of one of my back […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, Robert Bigelow, SpaceX

The Swan

December 10, 2015

The Swan and Strangers Being a stranger is the hardest things that can happen to anyone in all this world. We recently celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday here in the Land of Enchantment. The lucky ones in our community celebrated with friends, family and loved ones including pets. We all know there are people less fortunate […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Land of Enchantment, Orbital ATK, Space

I love being surprised

May 6, 2015

I love being surprised except when I hate it. On the way back from our recent launch at the spaceport, the 2 New Mexicans in the car agreed, we wanted our out of town guests to experience lunch at Sparkys in Hatch. We spent a year working on this Student Launch campaign with Las Cruces […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Space Station (ISS), Las Cruces Public Schools, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Spaceports, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

International Space Station: Good for another 10 years and great for Las Cruces

January 14, 2014

2014 started off with an especially positive announcement for our community. NASA announced the extension of the orbiting outpost through 2024. Why does this matter to our community? NASA White Sands Test Facility (NASA WSTF) is a support facility for the International Space Station (ISS). NASA WSTF does failure analysis on micro-meteoroid orbital debris impacts […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Las Cruces Public Schools, NASA, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, National Laboratory, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Stan Rounds, White Sands Test Facility

The ISS

May 1, 2013

In 1984, President Regan directed NASA to build the International Space Station (ISS). The living space on this ISS is bigger than a five bedroom home. End to end, the ISS is as long as the Aggie football stadium, including the goal posts. Top to bottom, it has more depth than the stadium. The ISS […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Federal Aviation Administration, International Space Station (ISS), ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, SpaceX

Platforms

February 4, 2013

This quote from John Pierce, the man who supervised the development of the transistor at Bell Labs, provides a relevant perspective worth sharing, regarding the risk/reward equation New Mexico has embarked on with the spaceport; “Regrettably, the language that describes innovations often fails to distinguish between an innovative consumer product and an innovation that represents […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, informed consent, International Space Station (ISS), ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Virgin Galatic

SpaceX and Drive

August 14, 2012

People who run marathons, scientists who live at the South Pole in winter, and even the firefighters in the Gila, have something in common. They have an innate drive to be autonomous, self-determined and connected to each other. Volunteering to be in a closed, hostile environment for months at a time is something International Space […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, International Space Station (ISS), International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Robert Bigelow, Space, SpaceNews, SpaceX

Thank you for No

January 24, 2012

“I’m thankful to all those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I did it myself”. Albert Einstein said that, and likely you understand this quote like I do. Life can be rewarding, but like most things you get out what you put in. The legislative session has started. Our legislators must hear […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Albert Einstein, Apollo 13, Astronauts, Burt Rutan, Gene Kranz, International Space Station (ISS), New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Paul Allen, Peter Diamandis, Public speaking, Richard Branson, Space Adventures, Virgin Galatic, XPRIZE

The Invitation

June 14, 2011

Here’s an invitation I treasure: “On behalf of the Johnson Space Center Director, Mike Coats, it’s my pleasure to invite you and a guest to join us in viewing the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.”  The invitation describes the final mission of STS-135 Atlantis to deliver […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Chris Anderson, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), NASA, Space, Space Shuttle Atlantis

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