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The numbers add up in Arianespace’s latest commercial launch success with Ariane 5
May, 2012

  Arianespace provided another on-time Ariane 5 launch tonight by orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft at the service of Asian region operators, on a mission ...

On the recruitment trail: Have gun, will travel
May, 2012

  I have been on the road a lot lately. We live in a relatively remote part of the nation. If we want to recruit support ...

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When I travel, it is usually for work. Right now the heavy summer travel season is winding down. Yet, the planes are full with students heading off to college. Between squeezing in the last vacation of the summer and students going to college, the planes were full and so were the airports, including the El Paso International Airport. Crowded skies will continue to be part of the travel experience, and the FAA is working to ...


Pat Hynes preparing for ISPCS 2011 and talking about Space News article featuring Charles Miller on

"Institutional investors seek profit potential in Commercial Space."

 

 



Tim Pickens, Chief Propulsion Engineer Dynetics and upcoming ISPCS speaker...Selling shovels to miners:  Building the commercial space supply chain.

  



In 1999, two graduate students, Ralph Gibson, and John Versluis, submitted a proposal under our Graduate Student Research Program at New Mexico Space Grant. They wanted to determine if it was possible to have the Apollo 11 landing site at Tranquility base designated a World Heritage site. This project became a tale of passion, perseverance and respect for the heritage of man’s first footprints on the Moon. You can visit the website at http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/lunarlegacies

These ...


 

Corporate Vice President, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Space Systems inside Dream Chaser flight simulator speaking about this year’s International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight in Las Cruces, New Mexico.



Source: FLORIDA TODAY

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket would've cost almost three times as much to design, build and fly if it were done the way NASA usually does things.

It's no shock that a small private company could field a rocket faster and cheaper, than the big, entangled government space program. It's somewhat surprising, however, to see someone put to paper how much more money it costs taxpayers when the government develops a rocket ...


I already know the answer. So here’s the question, is it possible to get decent weather predictions for winter now that we know about La Nina? Recently Jeff Anderson, an NMSU Horticulturalist, suggested to Diana Alba in a Sun News article, the long range forecast for southern New Mexico indicates the strong effects from La Niña may mean we have another cold winter ahead of us. The recent rains and cold temperatures over the Thanksgiving ...