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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

Cocktails with Dan Goldin

March 17, 2016

Cocktails with the NASA Administrator Twenty two years ago I met the NASA Administrator Dan Goldin for a cocktail at the Hotel Encanto. He was here for one of the Delta Clipper tests. The Delta Clipper or DC-X program was funded by Department of Defense the contractor was MacDonald Douglas. The DC-X, short for Delta […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, Delta Clipper, NASA, New Mexico SpaceGrant Consortium, White Sands Test Facility

Post ISPCS discussion for Southern New Mexicans

October 13, 2015

The Space Economy and its growing influence from Southern New MexicoIt’s better to create the positive than try to deconstruct the negative. I heard this at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) which concluded last Thursday, October 8th. Creating a new commercial space industry has been a collaboration across many sectors of […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association, NASA, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), New Mexico State University, White Sands Test Facility

Getting pushed over to the side of the road

April 8, 2015

Have you ever owned a jalopy and had to push it over to the side of the road? Remember what it’s like, drivers side door open, traffic stopped and you huffing and puffing to get it out of everyone’s way. When I was young my parents did not  give me a car when I came […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, ISPCS, NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Space, Spaceports, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), White Sands Test Facility

The Orion Space Capsule

December 2, 2014

America’s first human space program began in 1959 with the Mercury Program. The Mercury Program’s 3rd mission carried Alan Shepard in the Freedom 7 space capsule one hundred and sixteen miles to space at a speed of fifty one hundred and eighty miles per hour, mission duration was fifteen minutes. That flight took place on […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Complex, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), moon, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Spaceport Sweden, Virgin Galatic, Werner Von Braun, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR

Co-Founder of local symposium and visionary has died

July 15, 2014

Bill Gaubatz, another pioneer and visionary in the government and commercial space programs, with ties of the heart to New Mexico, died on July 5th. “The DC-X was the perfect blending of vision, goals, experience, and expertise with passion and trust,” recalled William Gaubatz, who was the DC-X program manager at McDonnell Douglas in the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, White Sands Test Facility, XPRIZE

International Space Station: Good for another 10 years and great for Las Cruces

January 14, 2014

2014 started off with an especially positive announcement for our community. NASA announced the extension of the orbiting outpost through 2024. Why does this matter to our community? NASA White Sands Test Facility (NASA WSTF) is a support facility for the International Space Station (ISS). NASA WSTF does failure analysis on micro-meteoroid orbital debris impacts […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Space Station (ISS), ISS, Las Cruces Public Schools, NASA, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, National Laboratory, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Stan Rounds, White Sands Test Facility

The Delta Clipper legacy lives on in New Mexico

August 22, 2013

On Friday, August 16th, once again I found myself setting the alarm for 3:30am to get to Spaceport America for a meeting that started at 8am. This trip was to attend the 20th Anniversary of the first Delta Clipper X, DC-X flight. In 1993, the McDonnell Douglas team, led by Dr. William Gaubatz and astronaut […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, Delta Clipper, Land of Enchantment, NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR, XPRIZE

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

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