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Pat Hynes

The Gambler

June 1, 2016

The Gamblers Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Got it! Yet, we live in one town, one house, and are supposed to keep faith with one spouse. I have two bird nests at my house. One belongs to a pair of sparrows. They built their outpost on top of one of my back […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, Robert Bigelow, SpaceX

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

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

Execution of the Idea Is Benchmark of Successful Innovation

June 14, 2011

I recently had a conversation with Robert Bigelow, Founder and President of Bigelow Aerospace, about innovation and the commercial space industry. “There is no single step by step process that necessarily applies to the creation of all technologies. The challenge is to select the most elegant solution,” Bigelow said. “Ideas are easy to come by. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Robert Bigelow

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

Connecting the dots

January 11, 2011

This week I had the great privilege to have Mr. Robert Bigelow, escort a colleague and me on a tour of Bigelow Aerospace facilities north of Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Bigelow founded Bigelow Aerospace in 1999. He is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada, and made his fortune from his construction and real estate development […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, Public speaking, Robert Bigelow

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