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Pat Hynes

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

The Janitor Who Inspired Me

October 18, 2016

Jobe is a church janitor. This is not his real name but he exists. I spoke with him last week. He attended ISPCS and also our SUMMIT on Inclusion. This janitor spent over $1500 to join our community. When people attend ISPCS, we do not ask for their title. When you see a name badge […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, New Blogs, SUMMIT

Ambition is necessary for success

October 4, 2016

My career or any career needs to be nurtured. Careers were on the agenda at NMSU last week because of homecoming. Successful alumni who serve on various advisory boards were on campus, including my former boss who now works at NASA’s Langley Research Center. He still works in the area of technology development. He was […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, New Blogs, New Mexico State University, SpaceX

Am I speaking or yelling, how do you tell the difference?

June 21, 2016

Speaking or yelling, how do you tell the difference? Public speaking is one of the things I dream about. It’s an art, and most certainly an acquired skill. You know it when you hear a great talk. And most of the time, we don’t hear it or see it. Why is that? Power Point slides. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, President Lincoln

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

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

The Coin of Discovery

November 24, 2015

The Coin of Discovery The year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein’s field equations on the General Theory of Relativity. There are celebrations across the globe to mark this centennial event. Science is cooler these days than it has been for a while. Like Einstein, many bright and curious people don’t […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Blogs

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 Full Story: The NTSB report on the SpaceShipTwo accident is out today

July 28, 2015

Today at 7:30 am MT, the National Transportation Safety Board will release its final report on the Virgin Galactic accident that occurred on a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo October 31st, 2014. In a preliminary report issued by the NTSB last November, it was reported the pilot who survived the crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), New Blogs, Virgin Galatic

Today is the closest New Horizons will get to Pluto

July 16, 2015

Fear of public speaking is common. The remedy: picture the audience naked. Seriously? That was a cure suggested to me when I was in high school. Like other remedies that don’t work, I had to discover how to cope with fear through trial and error. Early in my career I gave my fair share of […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Space

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