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Pat Hynes

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

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

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

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