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NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Building Had House However Instead Many Marching Modern Nasa Orders Organization Other Place Replacement Research Should Shuttle Some Things Were Which White White House Wish Work Works

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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?

~Burt Rutan

Topics: After Airlines Close Door Dying Experience Few Flight Flying Get Look Operating Per Planes Risk Roughly Safety Shuttle Space Space Shuttle Terms Those Times Were Years You

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For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Around Because Bigger Destination Enjoying Flight Floating Go Industry Large Much Needs Now People Six Starting Than Themselves Those Up Want Why You

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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Am Any Astronauts Been Camera Course Dynamic Exciting Eye Hearing Like Looking Mechanism More Much Myself Our Over People Person Personally Photographs Pictures Place Published See Sick Sick And Tired Space Taken Talk Than Tired View Want

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Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Blue Competitors Couple Doing Enough Include Likely Only Operating Origin Others People Possibly Russians Several Smart Tell Which Who Will

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There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Airplane Brothers Countries Early Everybody Few Few People Flew Flown Four Had Happened Hey Hundreds Little Marvelous Only Paris People Period Pilots Said Short Started Things Thousands Time Time Period Wonderful Wright Wright Brothers Years I Can Ooh

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Airplanes were invented by natural selection. Now you can say that intelligent design designs our airplanes of today, but there was no intelligent design really designing those early airplanes. There were probably at least 30,000 different things tried, and when they crash and kill the pilot, don't try that again.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Again Airplane Crash Design Designing Designs Different Different Things Early Intelligent Invented Least Natural Natural Selection Now Our Pilot Really Say Selection Things Those Today Tried Try Were You

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I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: About Air Air Force Airplane Build Building Could Course Flying Force Fun Had Lot People Seven Some Spent Them Then Those Vietnam Vietnam War War Years

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NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Aversion Bureaucracy Catastrophic Combination Consequence Failures Innovation Kind Many Monopoly Myriad Nasa Natural Necessary Risk Ways

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A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: After Allen Billion Buy Close Estimates Funding Gave Go Industry Market Me Microsoft Million Million People Paul People Price Space Startup Study Ticket Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 17th, 1943

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