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Pat Hynes

The Beauty of Life

March 10, 2015

Sometimes you have to be alone to reflect on the beauty of life. Where winter is only a rumor in our world here in the desert, it is for us to enjoy this time of year. Let’s be grateful that so many of us have traded in snow shovels for sun screen. When we are […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Celebrations and Tyranny

September 19, 2012

Fiesta and conference season are upon us here in the Land of Enchantment. As we work overtime daily to put the finishing touches on the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight and the Community Partnership Luncheon, the event organizing roller coaster ride continues. I have a suggestion for everyone participating in any of our […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Burt Rutan, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Don Pettit, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISPCS Public Forum, Land of Enchantment, Mf=1- e(-Δv/ve), New Blogs, New Mexico State University, Whole Enchilada Fiesta

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

Best Place in the Universe

January 10, 2012

Does anyone remember the State of New Mexico Alien’s “Best Place in the Universe” advertising campaign? It started in 2007. It was the right campaign at the right time, although not everyone agreed. You can still see the videos on youtube. Secretary of Tourism, Mike Cerletti came to Las Cruces to speak to the Advertising […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, Mike Cerletti, Richard Branson, Space Tourism, Virgin Galatic

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

La Niña

November 29, 2011

I already know the answer. So here’s the question, is it possible to get decent weather predictions for winter now that we know about La Nina? Recently Jeff Anderson, an NMSU Horticulturalist, suggested to Diana Alba in a Sun News article, the long range forecast for southern New Mexico indicates the strong effects from La […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: CARSAME Center, Commercial Space Articles, Earth Observing System (EOB), Geophysicist, Horticulturalist, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant ConsortiumTopics: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, NOAA, NPOESS

Dream Chaser

November 15, 2011

Did you know the United States copied a Russian space plane called the BOR-4 and adapted it in the 1990’s to a manned orbital space plane called the HL 20? On Tuesday, November 8th, I went to the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) plant in Livingston, Colorado, accompanied by Carl Ehrlich, the manager of the Rockwell […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Boeing X-37 space plane, BOR-4, Carl Erlich, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Dream Chaser simulator, Energia rocket, FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, HL-20, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, NASA Langley Research Center, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, North Carolina State University, Sierra Nevada Corporation, The Dream Chaser, University of Colorado Bioastronautics Laboratory, US Air Force

Cube-Sats- small satellites for the common man

November 1, 2011

Maybe you do this – work on the weekends because it is fun. Sometimes I enjoy taking my time to read through the emails my colleagues purposely save for the weekend. That way we can savor good news and accomplishments. Here is a great accomplishment; Montana State University, Auburn Utah State and Michigan State launched […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, Cube-Sats, Delta 2 rocket, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Space, Vandenberg Air Force Base

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

Lunar Legacy Project

September 20, 2011

In 1999, two graduate students, Ralph Gibson, and John Versluis, submitted a proposal under our Graduate Student Research Program at New Mexico Space Grant. They wanted to determine if it was possible to have the Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility base designated a World Heritage site. This project became a tale of passion, perseverance […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility base, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium

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