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Pat Hynes

Courage, leadership on display at Spaceport America Cup

July 12, 2017

It took courage and leadership for Dan Hicks and his team to carry off the first Spaceport America Cup. Leadership, because if anything went wrong, Mr. Hicks is the one wringable neck. Courage because of the complexity of the tasks to be carried out. When you have students of all ages involved with explosives, think […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Burning Man of Rocketry, Dan Hicks, Jacobs, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Spaceport Americ Cup, Spaceport America, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Test Facility

VSS Unity’s First Solo Flight

December 12, 2016

Finally: Virgin SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity completed her first glide flight! It’s been just over two years since the accident. I wish I could have seen her on her own without the mother ship. Up until Saturday, she was always in captive carry mode. That is she was carried and firmly attached to WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Boeing, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), Virgin Galatic, VMS Eve, VSS Unity

Think outside the Can

July 19, 2016

Where do you go when there is no place left to go? NASA has a great idea. Join them in Space. This week NASA asked us, fellow tax payers, to consider what we would you do if NASA made a port available for you to connect to the International Space Station (ISS). This is a […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISS, NASA, SpaceX

The Gambler

June 1, 2016

The Gamblers Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Got it! Yet, we live in one town, one house, and are supposed to keep faith with one spouse. I have two bird nests at my house. One belongs to a pair of sparrows. They built their outpost on top of one of my back […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, International Space Station (ISS), ISS, NASA, Robert Bigelow, SpaceX

BEAM Me Up NASA

April 12, 2016

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Arrowhead Center, BEAM, Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, Canadian robotic arm, CASIS, CRS-8, Dexter, ISPCS, ISS, ISS Trinity, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, node 3, Robert Bigelow, SpaceX, SpaceX Dragon

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

What would a three week General Election season be like?

March 1, 2016

We have sympathy from our colleagues at Virgin Galactic. Last week I met with Virgin employees who were here from Mojave Air and Space Port. As the press reported, Virgin Galactic had an unveiling ceremony recently and released videos and photographs of Virgin SpaceShip the VSS Unity. The VSS Unity is being built by the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, ISPCS, NASA, Near-Space Flight Services, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Spaceports, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), SpaceX, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

Local columns add to community dialogue

January 14, 2016

Local columns add to community dialogue Over the past few weeks we have learned of the resignation of some of the local contributing columnists. Like you, I read their columns. Over time, each columnist finds their voice and their audience. As I now return from vacation time with family, I reflected on how the family […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Spaceports

Anticipation

November 10, 2015

Anticipation I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. I can tell already people are anticipating the season. Fred Rodgers, said anticipation is the pleasure of enjoying the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University

Martians are Us

October 27, 2015

Of course I saw the movie Martian. It was a way to for my students and staff to celebrate our accomplishments after a long year of preparation and execution of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Space (ISPCS). I will get back to the movie, which we all recommend. It has a lot more […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Space

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