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Pat Hynes

Spaceport Related Projects and the Spaceport Tax

January 7, 2014

There are 24, 872 Las Cruces Public School District students enrolled by the most recent head count published on the LCPS website. The NMSU and Dona Ana College websites indicate there were a total combined 24,099 students enrolled in 2012. We have almost the same number of students in the public school system as in […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University

Congratulations to the new space scientists

July 8, 2013

Good news! All the algae flown to space on June 21 from Spaceport America survived. Abe Anderson with Sapphire Energy was New Mexico Space Grant’s technical advisor on this flight. He completed the initial analysis on the algae cultures. After the flight, the health and growth rate of the cultures that went to space were […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Sapphire Energy, UP Aerospace

Notes from the field: It is never routine to go to space

June 24, 2013

We got off to an early start with students, teachers, parents, the Alan’s – Alan Hale and Allan Lockheed, who came again to witness our journey back to space. Lights in the parking lot, like in the movie Field of Dreams. Lights as far as I can see, cars, busses, filled with students, parents, friends, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alan Hale, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, UP Aerospace

Behind the Scenes

May 28, 2013

Before I get into the text of my article today, I have to comment on Ned Cantwell’s article in yesterday’s paper. Richard Branson is going approximately seventy miles in a licensed sub-orbital human spaceflight vehicle, not to orbit. SpaceX is testing a research vehicle not intended for human spaceflight. Mr. Cantwell, should you want to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, SpaceX, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

Why we should send student experiments to space

May 13, 2013

We have a launch date. On June 21, 2013, student experiments from Camino Real Middle School, La Academia De Delores Huerta and New Mexico State University will be among the five schools with experiments headed to space from Spaceport America. We had a year-long delay on this flight because of a licensing issue. New Mexico […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Sapphire Energy

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

Under Promise and Over Deliver

November 27, 2012

Under promise and over deliver. A key strategy to success in business, and life. The implications are that you know what you want to do, are able to communicate it and then deliver. Delivering promised results is a key trust building behavior. As I plan my goals for 2013 for the Student Launch Program (SLP), […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Cube-Sats, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Space, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

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

Mars and the Olympics

August 14, 2012

Landing on Mars and winning at the Olympics, there is nothing easy about either. On Sunday, August 5th, starting around 11pm our time, you can watch the coverage of the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory at NASA.gov. Think about it. A laboratory the size of an SUV, will descend from the Curiosity Lander, deploy […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Astronauts, Atlas V, ISPCS, ISPCS Public Forum, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Space, Space Adventures, SpaceNews

Learning to tell a better story about spaceflight

March 6, 2012

When I tell people I am in the commercial space business, I now use a hand gesture. I point up. Otherwise they think I sell in commercial space in warehouses, or in shopping malls. I have been traveling a great deal in these past three weeks. The more I work to build our industry, the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Public speaking, UP Aerospace

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