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Pat Hynes

Hire a Go Getter to Get Us Going

August 2, 2016

We need a go getter to get going. A spaceport is a business, and that business is transportation. There are 5 modes of transportation; ground, sea, rail, air and space. The State of New Mexico has a Secretary of Transportation. I wonder if the Secretary has been involved in the discussion about the qualifications of […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Federal Aviation Administration

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)

The ISS

May 1, 2013

In 1984, President Regan directed NASA to build the International Space Station (ISS). The living space on this ISS is bigger than a five bedroom home. End to end, the ISS is as long as the Aggie football stadium, including the goal posts. Top to bottom, it has more depth than the stadium. The ISS […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Federal Aviation Administration, International Space Station (ISS), ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, SpaceX

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

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

Let’s Build CrucesSat

July 24, 2012

Have you ever been in a group discussion and found the discussion dominated by one person? What goes through your mind? Last week I was in London at the Farnborough International Air Show and present when Richard Branson announced the LauncherOne. Sir Richard said, “I’m immensely proud of what we have already achieved as we […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Space, Virgin Galatic

Teaching and Learning

July 10, 2012

The core of my motivation in writing is not only to examine major issues in the commercial space transportation industry, but to also learn along with you. The emerging commercial space industry is fascinating. It is about much more than space. This week I have been working on a spaceport panel for the commercial space […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Blogs, Public speaking, Spaceport Sweden, Spaceports

ISPCS 2011 Update August 31, 2011

August 31, 2011

George Nield speaking at ISPCS 2011

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, George Nield, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium

NextGen

August 23, 2011

When I travel, it is usually for work. Right now the heavy summer travel season is winding down. Yet, the planes are full with students heading off to college. Between squeezing in the last vacation of the summer and students going to college, the planes were full and so were the airports, including the El […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: COE-CST, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)

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