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Pat Hynes

VSS Unity’s First Solo Flight

December 12, 2016

Finally: Virgin SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity completed her first glide flight! It’s been just over two years since the accident. I wish I could have seen her on her own without the mother ship. Up until Saturday, she was always in captive carry mode. That is she was carried and firmly attached to WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Boeing, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), Virgin Galatic, VMS Eve, VSS Unity

Think outside the Can

July 19, 2016

Where do you go when there is no place left to go? NASA has a great idea. Join them in Space. This week NASA asked us, fellow tax payers, to consider what we would you do if NASA made a port available for you to connect to the International Space Station (ISS). This is a […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

Am I speaking or yelling, how do you tell the difference?

June 21, 2016

Speaking or yelling, how do you tell the difference? Public speaking is one of the things I dream about. It’s an art, and most certainly an acquired skill. You know it when you hear a great talk. And most of the time, we don’t hear it or see it. Why is that? Power Point slides. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, President Lincoln

The Full Story: The NTSB report on the SpaceShipTwo accident is out today

July 28, 2015

Today at 7:30 am MT, the National Transportation Safety Board will release its final report on the Virgin Galactic accident that occurred on a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo October 31st, 2014. In a preliminary report issued by the NTSB last November, it was reported the pilot who survived the crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), New Blogs, Virgin Galatic

The sequester: It’s like the flu or a hangover

March 4, 2013

The sequester: It’s like the flu or a hangover. You’ve got it now how are you going to get through it? So let’s take the first case, the flu. You did not give yourself the flu but you’ve got it. The thing about the flu is you don’t know how bad it is until it’s […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

Why didn’t I think of that?

February 19, 2013

Why didn’t I think of that? The TV remote control/bottle opener, the swivel passenger car seat, or the battery operated twirling spaghetti fork? You know it, I’ll bet at least once you’ve thought of some cool invention and then let it slip away into the graveyard of great ideas. Lauren Rojas, a seventh grader from […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, George Nield, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Public speaking, SL-5 Launch at Spaceport America

The Dragon in the Cave

October 2, 2012

Calculating in the Dragon that lives nearby. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote books for his children. Like all great children’s books, lessons were hidden in big adventures and larger than life characters, even if they were short in stature. I am sharing a favorite quote from The Hobbit. I’ve kept it in mind when making big decision […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Celebrations and Tyranny

September 19, 2012

Fiesta and conference season are upon us here in the Land of Enchantment. As we work overtime daily to put the finishing touches on the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight and the Community Partnership Luncheon, the event organizing roller coaster ride continues. I have a suggestion for everyone participating in any of our […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Burt Rutan, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Don Pettit, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISPCS Public Forum, Land of Enchantment, Mf=1- e(-Δv/ve), New Blogs, New Mexico State University, Whole Enchilada Fiesta

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

Teaching and Learning

July 10, 2012

The core of my motivation in writing is not only to examine major issues in the commercial space transportation industry, but to also learn along with you. The emerging commercial space industry is fascinating. It is about much more than space. This week I have been working on a spaceport panel for the commercial space […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Blogs, Public speaking, Spaceport Sweden, Spaceports

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