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Pat Hynes

Congratulations to the new space scientists

July 8, 2013

Good news! All the algae flown to space on June 21 from Spaceport America survived. Abe Anderson with Sapphire Energy was New Mexico Space Grant’s technical advisor on this flight. He completed the initial analysis on the algae cultures. After the flight, the health and growth rate of the cultures that went to space were […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Sapphire Energy, UP Aerospace

Notes from the field: It is never routine to go to space

June 24, 2013

We got off to an early start with students, teachers, parents, the Alan’s – Alan Hale and Allan Lockheed, who came again to witness our journey back to space. Lights in the parking lot, like in the movie Field of Dreams. Lights as far as I can see, cars, busses, filled with students, parents, friends, […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alan Hale, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn, UP Aerospace

Behind the Scenes

May 28, 2013

Before I get into the text of my article today, I have to comment on Ned Cantwell’s article in yesterday’s paper. Richard Branson is going approximately seventy miles in a licensed sub-orbital human spaceflight vehicle, not to orbit. SpaceX is testing a research vehicle not intended for human spaceflight. Mr. Cantwell, should you want to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, NASA, NASA Flight Opportunties, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, SpaceX, Summer of Innovation - Launch & Learn

Why we should send student experiments to space

May 13, 2013

We have a launch date. On June 21, 2013, student experiments from Camino Real Middle School, La Academia De Delores Huerta and New Mexico State University will be among the five schools with experiments headed to space from Spaceport America. We had a year-long delay on this flight because of a licensing issue. New Mexico […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Sapphire Energy

Who knows?

December 27, 2011

Who knows? You might end up in space. That was the closing line in a recent Wall. Street Journal written by Mary Kissel. She interviewed Richard Branson recently to discuss his new book, “Screw Business as Usual”. Now that the 2011 International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) is done, we are focusing on […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Dr. Kamlesh Lulla, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Sapphire Energy, Space, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic, Wayne Hale, Wings In Orbit

Familarity leads to Mastery

October 17, 2011

I am preparing to speak to the customers of Virgin Galactic who are here for the events at the Spaceport. We are discussing philanthropy today. Virgin Galactic customers have started a program to support the education projects we are flying from Spaceport America. Granted, none of the education experiments will be flying on the Virgin […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 000-Hour Rule, 10, Malcom Gladwell, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Outliers, Public speaking, Sapphire Energy, Space, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

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