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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

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

Read the NTSB report on the SpaceShipTwo accident

August 28, 2015

In the past year, we have experienced three aviation deaths at or near the Las Cruces Municipal Airport. All three of the accidents are being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB website states in part, it is a federal agency which does not assign fault or blame for an accident or […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, ISPCS, Mojave Air and Spaceport, NASA, New Blogs, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

Take time to show compassion to the Virgin Galactic employees here in our community

November 5, 2014

Take time to show compassion to the Virgin Galactic employees here in our community. When I started working in the space industry 26 years ago, I was unfamiliar with its vocabulary. My boss was critical of any misuse of the “technical” language which did not help me to continue to experiment with new vocabulary. Using […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Richard Branson, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), Virgin Galatic, Wayne Hale

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

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