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In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Any Aviation Coming Development Efforts Era Exploration Forces Guide History Low-Cost Market New Private Private Sector Safer Sector Space Space Exploration Spur Technologies The History Of Too Will Yield

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Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Cost Develop Extremely Goal Low Our Program Robust Safe Show Space Space Program You

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In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

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Topics: Affordable Countries Just Lot Routine Space Tourism Will Years

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There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Amount Any Becomes Bias Bit Bunch Cherry Data Easy Enormous Industry Little Little Bit Pick Quite Rampant Sell Someone Something Tendency Trying Where

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I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: About Actually Bad Began Climate Conclusions Data Deeper Fact Find Got In Fact Looked Only Planet Prove Raw Really Scientists Share Shocked Smell Something Summary Theories Used Various Warming Were Who Worse Would

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Tragically, policymakers have thrown horrendous amounts of taxpayer money needed for other purposes at solving an unsubstantiated emergency. It is scandalous that so many climate scientists who fully knew that Al Gore had no basis for his irresponsible claims stood mute.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Al Al Gore Amount Basis Claims Climate Emergency Fully Gore Had His Horrendous Irresponsible Knew Many Money Mute Needed Other Policymakers Purposes Scandalous Scientists Solving Stood Taxpayer Thrown Tragically Who

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When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Back Breakthrough Confidence Consensus Creative Ever Find Go Means Nonsense Period Researcher Time Time Period True Well You

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At various times over 20 years, I did preliminary designs for aircraft like the Stratolaunch. For that whole time I was encouraging us to do something that almost everyone else felt you could not do.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Aircraft Almost Almost Everyone Could Designs Did Else Encouraging Everyone Everyone Else Felt Like Over Preliminary Something Time Times Us Various Whole Years You

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The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Criticism Flying Get Interest Lose Once Something

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To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Access Allow Breakthroughs Compared Cost Every Factor First Flight Increase Launch Lot Lower Magnitude More Need Orbit Order Part Public Safety Significant Since Solution Space System Than Think Used Will Would I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 17th, 1943

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