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Pat Hynes

The Orion Space Capsule

December 2, 2014

America’s first human space program began in 1959 with the Mercury Program. The Mercury Program’s 3rd mission carried Alan Shepard in the Freedom 7 space capsule one hundred and sixteen miles to space at a speed of fifty one hundred and eighty miles per hour, mission duration was fifteen minutes. That flight took place on […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ISPCS, Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Complex, Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), moon, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Spaceport Sweden, Virgin Galatic, Werner Von Braun, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR

Teaching and Learning

July 10, 2012

The core of my motivation in writing is not only to examine major issues in the commercial space transportation industry, but to also learn along with you. The emerging commercial space industry is fascinating. It is about much more than space. This week I have been working on a spaceport panel for the commercial space […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, New Blogs, Public speaking, Spaceport Sweden, Spaceports

No lost in space for them or me

April 3, 2012

Where are we supposed to meet? Here or down at the outfitters? Beats me was the answer…again. I was with a group of speakers at a conference, and we were headed to the speaker’s dinner at the Sami camp. The Sami are the native people who live above the arctic circle in Lapland. They are […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, Karin Nilsdotter, New Blogs, Spaceport Sweden

Space is the latest in human transportation

March 23, 2012

Speaking in public is a double sided relationship. One side of the relationship is the writer alone preparing to meet and talk with the audience. The other side of the relationship is the writer talking to and with the audience. Preparing for a talk is kind of like preparing for a wedding. In practice, one […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Karin Nilsdotter, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Spaceport Sweden

The Spaceport Directors

October 4, 2011

This is a multiple choice question. The reason I was late for my telecom last Thursday was (a) I forgot how to get to the office (b) the dog hid my keys (c) there was a snake in my living room. It was 6:30am, I was leaving the house to run, and there it was.  […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Chris Anderson, Commercial Space Articles, Commercial spaceflight, Esrange Space Center, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, Karin Nilsdotter, Mojave Air and Spaceport, NASA, Spaceport Sweden, Stewart Witt, White Sands Missile Range

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