I have just returned from the launch of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the International Space Station (ISS). It was the 8th commercial resupply services (CRS-8) mission for NASA by the SpaceX Flacon 9 rocket from their launch complex 40 at Kennedy Space Center. I was a launch site guest of Bigelow Aerospace […]
Post ISPCS discussion for Southern New Mexicans
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 […]
David and Goliath: Space Florida and the New Mexico Partnership
Last week I participated in Mesilla Valley Economic Development Associations’ (MVEDA) commercial space panel. Our focus was to discuss growing our awareness and partnerships that support the commercial space industry in our region. The panel included Dumitru Propescu, founder and CEO of ARCA Aerospace. Dumitru has been a colleague and spoke at the first International […]
The Orion Space Capsule
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 […]
New Mexico Universities must invest in faculty with commercial space capability now
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 […]
Platforms
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 […]
Dog Days, Sirius the Dog Star, and Sirius XM Radio
The temperature was 106 today. I had my on summer gardening “Get-Up” as my neighbor calls it. Long sleeves, socks, hat, shorts and gloves. Not gorgeous, but necessary in our weather. Gardening attire is the only time I get a little Cyndi Lauper. I noticed it today especially; we are in the Dog Days of […]
