Solstar Supports Women in Aerospace- Dr. Patricia Hynes

Meet Solstar investor and commercial space industry leader, Dr. Pat Hynes.

Dr. Pat Hynes is Curator of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS), one of the most important conferences in the commercial space industry. In this video, Dr. Hynes explains why she is an investor in Solstar Space Co. in this interview with Solstar Founder and CEO, Mr. M. Brian Barnett. From an investor standpoint, "nothing can replace Solstar's persistence" with creating products and services the commercial space industry needs.

Dr. Hynes serves as the Director of the New Mexico Space Grant Consortium (NMSGC) and NASA Established Program for Competitive Research (EPSCoR). In her role as NMSGC Director, she became involved in the development of Spaceport America and commercial space programs in 1991. In 2005, she co-founded the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS) with Bill Gaubatz. In 2009, with proceeds from ISPCS, she founded the Student Launch Program which provides annual access to space from Spaceport America for research experiments. She is a graduate of New Mexico State University with a Ph.D. Business Administration, and graduate of the International Space University (ISU) Executive Management Course in 2014.

Dr. Hynes and Brian Barnett have collaborated since 2010 through the FAA's Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation, and on launches out of Spaceport America.