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Pat Hynes

Read the NTSB report on the SpaceShipTwo accident

August 28, 2015

In the past year, we have experienced three aviation deaths at or near the Las Cruces Municipal Airport. All three of the accidents are being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The NTSB website states in part, it is a federal agency which does not assign fault or blame for an accident or […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, ISPCS, Mojave Air and Spaceport, NASA, New Blogs, SpaceShipTwo(SSII), White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

New Mexico Universities must invest in faculty with commercial space capability now

January 28, 2014

New Mexico Universities must invest in faculty with commercial space capability now. Commercialization of space is becoming more important to our national leaders every year as commercial companies demonstrate low-cost increased access to space from commercial spaceports is possible. “The United States Defense Department needs to be thinking seriously about commercial alternatives in order to […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Commercial spaceflight, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden, New Blogs, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, Sierra Nevada Corporation, SpaceX, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

It only takes one meeting

March 18, 2013

As sequestration begins its effect on our lives may never be fully realized or calculable. This government policy is slowly starting to pull our economy apart as budget negotiations start in Washington. Shutting down the government as a strategy didn’t work during the “Contract with America” in 1994 as non-essential government services were halted for […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, Federal Aviation Administration, General Bingham, ISPCS, NASA, New Blogs, obama, President Obama, sequestration, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), White Sands Test Facility

The sequester: It’s like the flu or a hangover

March 4, 2013

The sequester: It’s like the flu or a hangover. You’ve got it now how are you going to get through it? So let’s take the first case, the flu. You did not give yourself the flu but you’ve got it. The thing about the flu is you don’t know how bad it is until it’s […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: FAA, FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight, NASA, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium, New Mexico State University, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

The Analog computer and our future

December 13, 2011

Seventy years ago on December 7, the Japanese invaded Pearl Harbor.  The Japanese not only invaded Pearl Harbor, but also almost simultaneously, attacked Thailand, Shanghai, Malaya, the Philippines, Guam, Midway, and Wake. A few days later they invaded Burma; a few days later, British Borneo. Hong Kong fell on Christmas, North Borneo, Manila, and the […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Analog computer, Colonel Steven Ferrari, Norden bombsight, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Missile Range (WSMR)

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