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Pat Hynes

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

The Company You Keep

June 30, 2015

The company you keep will define the opportunities you meet.   Years ago, it seems a lifetime ago, I had a meeting with the Director of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), Dr. Peter Wegner. Dr. Wegner had recently arrived at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque to set up Chile Works, a Skunk Works type […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), UP Aerospace, US Air Force

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

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

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

Familarity leads to Mastery

October 17, 2011

I am preparing to speak to the customers of Virgin Galactic who are here for the events at the Spaceport. We are discussing philanthropy today. Virgin Galactic customers have started a program to support the education projects we are flying from Spaceport America. Granted, none of the education experiments will be flying on the Virgin […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 000-Hour Rule, 10, Malcom Gladwell, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Outliers, Public speaking, Sapphire Energy, Space, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

This is great news for us

August 9, 2011

NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, each successful vendor will receive an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. These two-year contracts, worth a combined total of $10 million, will allow NASA to draw […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Armadillo Aerospace, NASA, Near Space Corp, Near-Space Flight Services, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic, Whittinghill Aerospace, XCOR

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

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