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Pat Hynes

The Orion Space Capsule

December 2, 2014

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Complex, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), moon, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Spaceport Sweden, Virgin Galatic, Werner Von Braun, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR

Tranquility Base and NMSU’s Role in its Preservation

July 31, 2014

Tranquility Base and NMSU’s role in its preservation Every year, New Mexico Space Grant (NMSCG) issues a call for research proposals from faculty across New Mexico. As Director, I have the privilege to review proposals which range from simple to complex. A recent proposal requested support to work on development a heat transfer technology to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility base, Apollo 13, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, moon, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Len Sugerman and Neil Armstrong

September 5, 2012

I have a picture in my office of Len Sugerman and Neil Armstrong at a conference in Berlin, Germany in 1975. They were attending a guidance, navigation and control symposium. In those days, the now very well known Global Positioning System was a US military program and was used to assure accuracy for ICBMs. In […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, General Kehler, global positioning system, gps, ISPCS, moon, NASA, New Blogs

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