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Pat Hynes

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

Who knows?

December 27, 2011

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Dr. Kamlesh Lulla, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, Space, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic, Wayne Hale, Wings In Orbit

Dream Chaser

November 15, 2011

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Boeing X-37 space plane, BOR-4, Carl Erlich, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Dream Chaser simulator, Energia rocket, FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, HL-20, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, North Carolina State University, Sierra Nevada Corporation, The Dream Chaser, University of Colorado Bioastronautics Laboratory, US Air Force

A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity

August 2, 2011

Students describe it as a once in a lifetime opportunity, New Mexico Space Grant working to bring space into the classroom now. Watch this video to find out how.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 5 Launch at Spaceport America, Chris Anderson, Commercial spaceflight, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

Endeavour’s last rodeo

May 17, 2011

Did you ever notice the relationship between the difficulty of getting into something and your willingness to get out? To put it another way, the more time and energy, sweat, blood and toil invested in creating a relationship, a business, or a space program, the less willingness over time there is to get out.  And […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, Endeavour, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, SpaceX, UP Aerospace

The Tube Rocket “Stig” built by Armadillo Aerospace

April 5, 2011

As I start to write this article in Microsoft Word, I click to open a Blank document. Yet, I have been writing this article in my mind since I hit the send button on the last article.  There’s really no Blank document, just a page waiting for words. Here they come. I feel like I […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Armadillo Aerospace, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, STIG tube rocket, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

Great feature article in Las Cruces Magazine

March 18, 2011

Commercial Space Frontiers Bringing the Industry Home By Joe Burgess Photography by Joe Burgess and Courtsey of the Space Development Fountation For the article online at Las Cruces Magazine click here For a pdf of the Las Cruces Magazine click here The development of commercial space as a viable industry for southern New Mexico is […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: COE-CST, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Robert Bigelow, Spaceport America Runway Dedication, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, Virgin Galatic

April 1 Launch

March 6, 2011

This article is about Middle School and science. Think back. Do you remember anything really frustrating about Middle School? I do. There was no science in my school. By seventh grade it was clear to me, science was interesting. I could not get enough. Astronomy, chemistry, earth science, and geography were, and still are, my […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program

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