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Pat Hynes

Courage, leadership on display at Spaceport America Cup

July 12, 2017

It took courage and leadership for Dan Hicks and his team to carry off the first Spaceport America Cup. Leadership, because if anything went wrong, Mr. Hicks is the one wringable neck. Courage because of the complexity of the tasks to be carried out. When you have students of all ages involved with explosives, think […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Burning Man of Rocketry, Dan Hicks, Jacobs, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Spaceport Americ Cup, Spaceport America, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Test Facility

New Mexico Universities must invest in faculty with commercial space capability now

January 28, 2014

New Mexico Universities must invest in faculty with commercial space capability now. Commercialization of space is becoming more important to our national leaders every year as commercial companies demonstrate low-cost increased access to space from commercial spaceports is possible. “The United States Defense Department needs to be thinking seriously about commercial alternatives in order to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

It only takes one meeting

March 18, 2013

As sequestration begins its effect on our lives may never be fully realized or calculable. This government policy is slowly starting to pull our economy apart as budget negotiations start in Washington. Shutting down the government as a strategy didn’t work during the “Contract with America” in 1994 as non-essential government services were halted for […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, General Bingham, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, obama, President Obama, sequestration, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), White Sands Test Facility

Operating at the Margins and Making it Work

February 7, 2012

What do Pros Ranch market and going back to the moon have in common? Hint #1: it’s about looking around to see what isn’t happening. We are not going to Juarez or the moon. Right now, both are out of reach. Hint #2: it is about opportunity. Hint #3: it’s about us. Why do I […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, ISS, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, Public speaking, Spaceports, Tiangong 1, White Sands Missile Range

The Analog computer and our future

December 13, 2011

Seventy years ago on December 7, the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese not only invaded Pearl Harbor, but also almost simultaneously, attacked Thailand, Shanghai, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam, Midway, and Wake. A few days later they invaded Burma; a few days later, British Borneo. Hong Kong fell on Christmas, North Borneo, Manila, and the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Analog computer, Colonel Steven Ferrari, Norden bombsight, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

The Spaceport Directors

October 4, 2011

This is a multiple choice question. The reason I was late for my telecom last Thursday was (a) I forgot how to get to the office (b) the dog hid my keys (c) there was a snake in my living room. It was 6:30am, I was leaving the house to run, and there it was.  […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Chris Anderson, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Esrange Space Center, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, Karin Nilsdotter, Mojave Air and Spaceport, NASA, Spaceport Sweden, Stewart Witt, White Sands Missile Range

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