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Pat Hynes

Courage, leadership on display at Spaceport America Cup

July 12, 2017

It took courage and leadership for Dan Hicks and his team to carry off the first Spaceport America Cup. Leadership, because if anything went wrong, Mr. Hicks is the one wringable neck. Courage because of the complexity of the tasks to be carried out. When you have students of all ages involved with explosives, think […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Burning Man of Rocketry, Dan Hicks, Jacobs, Land of Enchantment, NASA, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Spaceport Americ Cup, Spaceport America, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Test Facility

VSS Unity’s First Solo Flight

December 12, 2016

Finally: Virgin SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity completed her first glide flight! It’s been just over two years since the accident. I wish I could have seen her on her own without the mother ship. Up until Saturday, she was always in captive carry mode. That is she was carried and firmly attached to WhiteKnightTwo, VMS Eve […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Boeing, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), Virgin Galatic, VMS Eve, VSS Unity

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

What would a three week General Election season be like?

March 1, 2016

We have sympathy from our colleagues at Virgin Galactic. Last week I met with Virgin employees who were here from Mojave Air and Space Port. As the press reported, Virgin Galactic had an unveiling ceremony recently and released videos and photographs of Virgin SpaceShip the VSS Unity. The VSS Unity is being built by the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, ISPCS, NASA, Near-Space Flight Services, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico Space Grant Student Launch Program, New Mexico State University, Spaceports, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), SpaceX, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic

We can get there from here

January 29, 2016

We can get there from here. Brian Chesky’s business is worth $25 billion and sometimes he rents out his couch for $40 a night. He’s the founder of Airbnb. Recently he was at the 2nd annual Airbnb Open, a gathering in Paris of over 5,000 of his Airbnb hosts and 645 employees. At the event […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Airbnb, Brian Chesky, ISPCS, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Virgin Galatic

The Full Story: The NTSB report on the SpaceShipTwo accident is out today

July 28, 2015

Today at 7:30 am MT, the National Transportation Safety Board will release its final report on the Virgin Galactic accident that occurred on a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo October 31st, 2014. In a preliminary report issued by the NTSB last November, it was reported the pilot who survived the crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, ISPCS, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), New Blogs, Virgin Galatic

The waves do not rise, but when the wind blows

January 26, 2015

The state legislature has been in session for two weeks now. Reports are coming from Santa Fe about southern New Mexico. More debate is occurring about the future of our spaceport. Establishing a new industry like commercial space transportation requires demand for its products and services. Commercial products of the commercial space transportation industry include […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Dynamic Leadership in the age of space, Las Cruces Day in Santa Fe, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, Richard Branson, SpaceX, Virgin Galatic

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

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

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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