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Pat Hynes

A closed mind is a narrow road

March 29, 2016

In my first business class the professor said we would be learning about companies like General Motors, Boeing, Xerox and other large corporations than made up the U.S. industrial base. We were going to learn about large market trends like the oil and gas markets and we were going to learn how to understand how […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: AIAA, Boeing, General Motors, ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, New Mexico State University, Public speaking, Virgin Galatic, xerox, XPRIZE

I won’t take no for an answer

January 12, 2015

In January we set personal goals for the year, make resolutions in some cases, throw a Hail Mary pass at a difficult problem.  Lose weight, find your new relationship or solve both and join the gym, a Hail Mary pass for sure. Making realistic, specific, measurable goals requires a plan. The plan can create change; […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Mesilla Valley Economic Development Association, Public speaking, Spaceports

When the going gets tough, that’s when the tough get going

November 18, 2014

Be Proactive, Put First Things First, Start with the End in Mind. These three directives are concise instructions for project manager. They come from Steven Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. They can apply to any project, large or small, short or long term. A key word in the book title is effective. One […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, Land of Enchantment, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Public speaking

Try something new: learn an app, create an industry

April 8, 2014

I am using Microsoft office Speech Recognition software to write this article. I believe it’s important to challenge myself to use new technologies. I hope it is a time saver. I report at the of the article. Working at a university if a forcing function for trying new things. Fear of failure is mitigated because […]

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

Where do you fit?

November 13, 2013

When the movie Apollo 13 came out I was not that interested in seeing it. I was involved in the current space program. The Apollo era would never return. The movie was about old news. The end of Apollo was the end of the hope we might live and work on the moon in my […]

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Going the Extra Mile

October 29, 2013

Going the extra mile is in the culture of our community and our state. The diversity of events we are able to support is a source of community pride. Think about it, we have the Whole Enchilada Fiesta, Cowboys for Cancer, Pink, Dancing with the Stars, Wounded Warrior, the KRWG Public Radio and TV fundraising, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, ISPCS Public Forum, Land of Enchantment, New Blogs, Public speaking

The power of local news in service to our community

September 16, 2013

Local newspapers and journalists serve their communities. We still have both a daily and a weekly newspaper in Las Cruces. Our papers serve a wide geographic area, and the key word is serve. Why am I writing about this? To tell two stories about the story telling organizations. Dedication starts at the top. We are […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, ISPCS Public Forum, Land of Enchantment, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Public speaking, Virgin Galatic

The best is yet to come

June 11, 2013

On January 29, 1967, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite conducted a TV interview with John Pierce, the executive director of communications sciences at Bell Labs. The topic was research. Pierce said, “The wires that will carry telephony will also carry teletypewriter, and a circuit that’s capable of handling television will handle high speed data and […]

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Why didn’t I think of that?

February 19, 2013

Why didn’t I think of that? The TV remote control/bottle opener, the swivel passenger car seat, or the battery operated twirling spaghetti fork? You know it, I’ll bet at least once you’ve thought of some cool invention and then let it slip away into the graveyard of great ideas. Lauren Rojas, a seventh grader from […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, George Nield, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Public speaking, SL-5 Launch at Spaceport America

There’s an art to framing good questions

December 11, 2012

There are no dumb questions. Really? Its tempting, really tempting sometimes to prove that one wrong. However, I have a point here. We all get them, so it must have been a kinder person than me who said, there are only dumb answers. As the holidays approach and there are an increased number of gatherings […]

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