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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

The Delta Clipper legacy lives on in New Mexico

August 22, 2013

On Friday, August 16th, once again I found myself setting the alarm for 3:30am to get to Spaceport America for a meeting that started at 8am. This trip was to attend the 20th Anniversary of the first Delta Clipper X, DC-X flight. In 1993, the McDonnell Douglas team, led by Dr. William Gaubatz and astronaut […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: DC-X, Delta Clipper, Land of Enchantment, NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Galatic, White Sands Test Facility, XCOR, XPRIZE

CASIS – The Innovation Factory

January 22, 2013

Have you tried to buy a telephone lately? Not a cell phone or a smart phone, a telephone that operates on a land line. If you live in a rural part of New Mexico and get terrible phone reception, or live behind A Mountain and get terrible cell phone reception, and don’t want to pay […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Bigelow Aerospace, ISPCS, ISS, NASA, New Blogs, Space, Space Shuttle Atlantis, SpaceX, XCOR

This is great news for us

August 9, 2011

NASA has selected seven companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. As part of NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, each successful vendor will receive an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. These two-year contracts, worth a combined total of $10 million, will allow NASA to draw […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Armadillo Aerospace, NASA, Near Space Corp, Near-Space Flight Services, UP Aerospace, Virgin Galatic, Whittinghill Aerospace, XCOR

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