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IAF Interview with Patricia Hynes

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Patricia Hynes serves as the director for the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium and NASA EPSCoR, both programmes are funded by the United State Congress and administered by NASA.

Dr Hynes is the Chair of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight.

As director of NASA's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), could you explain about EPSCoR and its place in the US space effort?

EPSCoR is ...

At ISPCS, small business leaders consistently say each year that the expertise from the heritage industry members create the collaborative path toward long-term success. Small companies grow into large companies, one success leads to another.

"When creating change, small is good," said Pat Hynes, ISPCS Chair. "Small successes build confidence and skill. Our student experiments made it to space on Tuesday. Two hundred students can say they created hardware that has been to space. ...

Early-bird Registration for ISPCS 2011 Opens July 1
 

Register now and save $150 on your 2011 ISPCS registration. The value of the commercial spaceflight industry's innovations and technologies will be showcased in both the presentations and exhibits at ISPCS 2011.

"As we create new technologies, there is also value in creating competitive advantages that drive business growth in the emerging commercial space industry," said Patricia Hynes, ISPCS chair. "Speakers and exhibitors coming to ISPCS continue to ...

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 ...

ISPCS 2011 will continue to emphasize rich content in sessions as we evolve building hardware and human capacity to engineer complex systems. Whether it is a crew vehicle or a complex organizational collaboration, we have to do them well, as all eyes are on this industry to succeed.

Dr. George Nield, Associate Administrator of the FAA AST, shared his thoughts with me recently on the balanced approach he believes necessary to support growth of commercial space, ...

George Nield speaking at ISPCS 2011

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

"Institutional investors seek profit potential in Commercial Space."

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. 

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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 study team who worked on the HL 20 program in the 1990’s. We were guests of Mark Sirangelo, ...

The lawnmower telescope is my favorite Clyde Tombaugh telescope, built so he could move it around the backyard. Dr. Tombaugh was raised on a farm like many of the students he taught. Students scientists have pickups and tool boxes. They build instruments, they design housing for experiments, they invent, experiment and test their instruments. Ellington Field near Houston is where astronauts and NASA researchers flight test experiments.

Through New Mexico Space Grant, I have funded over ...