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Pat Hynes

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

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)

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 waves do not rise, but when the wind blows

January 26, 2015

The state legislature has been in session for two weeks now. Reports are coming from Santa Fe about southern New Mexico. More debate is occurring about the future of our spaceport. Establishing a new industry like commercial space transportation requires demand for its products and services. Commercial products of the commercial space transportation industry include […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, Las Cruces Day in Santa Fe, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Richard Branson, SpaceX, Virgin Galatic

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

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)

Why didn’t I think of that?

February 19, 2013

Why didn’t I think of that? The TV remote control/bottle opener, the swivel passenger car seat, or the battery operated twirling spaghetti fork? You know it, I’ll bet at least once you’ve thought of some cool invention and then let it slip away into the graveyard of great ideas. Lauren Rojas, a seventh grader from […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, George Nield, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Public speaking, SL-5 Launch at Spaceport America

Platforms

February 4, 2013

This quote from John Pierce, the man who supervised the development of the transistor at Bell Labs, provides a relevant perspective worth sharing, regarding the risk/reward equation New Mexico has embarked on with the spaceport; “Regrettably, the language that describes innovations often fails to distinguish between an innovative consumer product and an innovation that represents […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, informed consent, International Space Station (ISS), ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Virgin Galatic

Under Promise and Over Deliver

November 27, 2012

Under promise and over deliver. A key strategy to success in business, and life. The implications are that you know what you want to do, are able to communicate it and then deliver. Delivering promised results is a key trust building behavior. As I plan my goals for 2013 for the Student Launch Program (SLP), […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Cube-Sats, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Space, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

The Dragon in the Cave

October 2, 2012

Calculating in the Dragon that lives nearby. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote books for his children. Like all great children’s books, lessons were hidden in big adventures and larger than life characters, even if they were short in stature. I am sharing a favorite quote from The Hobbit. I’ve kept it in mind when making big decision […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

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