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Pat Hynes

The Company You Keep

June 30, 2015

The company you keep will define the opportunities you meet.   Years ago, it seems a lifetime ago, I had a meeting with the Director of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), Dr. Peter Wegner. Dr. Wegner had recently arrived at Kirtland Air Force base in Albuquerque to set up Chile Works, a Skunk Works type […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, Operationally Responsive Space (ORS), UP Aerospace, US Air Force

Dream Chaser

November 15, 2011

Did you know the United States copied a Russian space plane called the BOR-4 and adapted it in the 1990’s to a manned orbital space plane called the HL 20? On Tuesday, November 8th, I went to the Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) plant in Livingston, Colorado, accompanied by Carl Ehrlich, the manager of the Rockwell […]

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