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Pat Hynes

Post ISPCS discussion for Southern New Mexicans

October 13, 2015

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association, NASA, NASA’s Commercial Crew Development program (CCDev), New Mexico State University, White Sands Test Facility

Small but Mighty: The Cubesat

June 15, 2015

Small but Mighty: The Cubse Sat Last week I received notification that a proposal we submitted to NASA was funded. We were notified through email: Dear Dr. Hynes, I am pleased to inform you that your proposal, Virtual Telescope for X-ray Observations, was selected for funding in the amount of $749,525. The evaluation was conducted […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Cube-Sats, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Competition

May 8, 2015

Competition: how to use competitive edge and benefit. Last week as I drove through the Raton pass, it was darkly beautiful and dangerous because it was snowing. I left The Space Symposium conference in Colorado Springs I was attending a couple of hours early to make sure my colleague and I got through the pass […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ARCA Aerospace, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), ISPCS, New Mexico State University

Getting pushed over to the side of the road

April 8, 2015

Have you ever owned a jalopy and had to push it over to the side of the road? Remember what it’s like, drivers side door open, traffic stopped and you huffing and puffing to get it out of everyone’s way. When I was young my parents did not  give me a car when I came […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, ISPCS, NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Space, Spaceports, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), White Sands Test Facility

The Beauty of Life

March 10, 2015

Sometimes you have to be alone to reflect on the beauty of life. Where winter is only a rumor in our world here in the desert, it is for us to enjoy this time of year. Let’s be grateful that so many of us have traded in snow shovels for sun screen. When we are […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Lets talk about the road to success

February 10, 2015

The Whole Enchilada Fiesta will be without the enchilada. Bummer! I remember going to the Hillsboro Appleless Festival one year. There were no apples, they had a freeze. It was the first year I brought my parents to Hillsboro. I bribed my Dad with a promise of apple pie. They had good pies, he really […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University

Have a Healthy Disregard for the Impossible

January 12, 2015

Have a healthy disregard for the impossible. My early introduction to computers started with a college summer job in 1968 at the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), our equivalent of El Paso Electric. Punch cards were just starting to be used on their payroll system and I was told, oh boy, I could have a […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Mexico State University

Take time to show compassion to the Virgin Galactic employees here in our community

November 5, 2014

Take time to show compassion to the Virgin Galactic employees here in our community. When I started working in the space industry 26 years ago, I was unfamiliar with its vocabulary. My boss was critical of any misuse of the “technical” language which did not help me to continue to experiment with new vocabulary. Using […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Richard Branson, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), Virgin Galatic, Wayne Hale

Private industry takes lead in return to space station

September 23, 2014

On Tuesday, Sept. 16, NASA administrator, Gen. Charlie Bolden, announced the selection of Boeing and SpaceX to be the first American companies to launch our astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Simply stated, when NASA shut down the shuttle program, it was no longer the best way for our country to invest taxpayer dollars […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, ISS, Land of Enchantment, NASA, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, New Blogs, New Mexico State University, SpaceX

Sitting on the sidelines is not an option

August 27, 2014

NASA may make the announcement this week on the final selection of the private company or companies they will work with to return American astronauts to the International Space Station on space vehicles Made In America, not Russia. This is part of the NASA Commercial Crew Development program. I have written about women from New […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Chris Anderson, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Virgin Galatic

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