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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

The Janitor Who Inspired Me

October 18, 2016

Jobe is a church janitor. This is not his real name but he exists. I spoke with him last week. He attended ISPCS and also our SUMMIT on Inclusion. This janitor spent over $1500 to join our community. When people attend ISPCS, we do not ask for their title. When you see a name badge […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, New Blogs, SUMMIT

Ambition is necessary for success

October 4, 2016

My career or any career needs to be nurtured. Careers were on the agenda at NMSU last week because of homecoming. Successful alumni who serve on various advisory boards were on campus, including my former boss who now works at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He still works in the area of technology development. He was […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, New Blogs, New Mexico State University, 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

Mobile communications: I decided to learn about this technology

June 1, 2016

  Getting a tweet from Elon Musk on my mobile device is way cool.   Communicating is what this article and a newspaper does. We hope. The mobile phone is a communications tool. As I become more dependent on mobile technology devices I’ve gotten interested in the future of mobile communications technologies. More of us […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, New Mexico State University

BEAM Me Up NASA

April 12, 2016

I have just returned from the launch of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the 8th commercial resupply services (CRS-8) mission for NASA by the SpaceX Flacon 9 rocket from their launch complex 40 at Kennedy Space Center. I was a launch site guest of Bigelow Aerospace […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arrowhead Center, BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, Canadian robotic arm, CASIS, CRS-8, Dexter, ISPCS, ISS, ISS Trinity, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, node 3, Robert Bigelow, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon

A closed mind is a narrow road

March 29, 2016

In my first business class the professor said we would be learning about companies like General Motors, Boeing, Xerox and other large corporations than made up the U.S. industrial base. We were going to learn about large market trends like the oil and gas markets and we were going to learn how to understand how […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: AIAA, Boeing, General Motors, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, New Mexico State University, Public speaking, Virgin Galatic, xerox, XPRIZE

What would a three week General Election season be like?

March 1, 2016

We have sympathy from our colleagues at Virgin Galactic. Last week I met with Virgin employees who were here from Mojave Air and Space Port. As the press reported, Virgin Galactic had an unveiling ceremony recently and released videos and photographs of Virgin SpaceShip the VSS Unity. The VSS Unity is being built by the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, ISPCS, NASA, Near-Space Flight Services, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Spaceports, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), SpaceX, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

We can get there from here

January 29, 2016

We can get there from here. Brian Chesky’s business is worth $25 billion and sometimes he rents out his couch for $40 a night. He’s the founder of Airbnb. Recently he was at the 2nd annual Airbnb Open, a gathering in Paris of over 5,000 of his Airbnb hosts and 645 employees. At the event […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Airbnb, Brian Chesky, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Virgin Galatic

Martians are Us

October 27, 2015

Of course I saw the movie Martian. It was a way to for my students and staff to celebrate our accomplishments after a long year of preparation and execution of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Space (ISPCS). I will get back to the movie, which we all recommend. It has a lot more […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Space

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