Curator, International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS)

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 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 ISU Executive Management Course in 2014.