Where are we supposed to meet? Here or down at the outfitters? Beats me was the answer…again. I was with a group of speakers at a conference, and we were headed to the speaker’s dinner at the Sami camp. The Sami are the native people who live above the arctic circle in Lapland. They are […]
Who knows?
Who knows? You might end up in space. That was the closing line in a recent Wall. Street Journal written by Mary Kissel. She interviewed Richard Branson recently to discuss his new book, “Screw Business as Usual”. Now that the 2011 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) is done, we are focusing on […]
Dream Chaser
Did you know the United States copied a Russian space plane called the BOR-4 and adapted it in the 1990’s to a manned orbital space plane called the HL 20? On Tuesday, November 8th, I went to the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) plant in Livingston, Colorado, accompanied by Carl Ehrlich, the manager of the Rockwell […]
Cube-Sats- small satellites for the common man
Maybe you do this – work on the weekends because it is fun. Sometimes I enjoy taking my time to read through the emails my colleagues purposely save for the weekend. That way we can savor good news and accomplishments. Here is a great accomplishment; Montana State University, Auburn Utah State and Michigan State launched […]
The Spaceport Directors
This is a multiple choice question. The reason I was late for my telecom last Thursday was (a) I forgot how to get to the office (b) the dog hid my keys (c) there was a snake in my living room. It was 6:30am, I was leaving the house to run, and there it was. […]
Lunar Legacy Project
In 1999, two graduate students, Ralph Gibson, and John Versluis, submitted a proposal under our Graduate Student Research Program at New Mexico Space Grant. They wanted to determine if it was possible to have the Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility base designated a World Heritage site. This project became a tale of passion, perseverance […]
Pat Hynes preparing for ISPCS 2011 and talking about Space News article featuring Charles Miller
ISPCS 2011 preperation and Charles Miller in Space News – Institutional investors seek profit potential in Commercial Space.
ISPCS 2011 Update August 31, 2011
George Nield speaking at ISPCS 2011
ISPCS 2011 Update August 24, 2011
The Four Agreements
A few months ago my daughter gave me the book, The Four Agreements. Until I read this book, I never thought about the agreements I made with myself when I was young. I realized I made an agreement with myself I had to be right to survive. I never re-examined this agreement until recently. Being […]
