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Burt Rutan Biography

Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is a retired American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which in 1986 was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space twice within a two-week period. With his VariEze and Long-EZ designs, Rutan is responsible for helping popularize both the canard configuration and the use of moldless composite construction in the homebuilt aircraft industry.

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Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

Everything, Looks, Nonsensical, Works

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

Confidence, Creator, Have Confidence, Nonsense, Research, True

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.

1908, Airplane, Brother, Country, Flown, Period

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

Luck, Pluto, Running, Space, Time

My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

Airplane, Data, Engineer, Likely, Lying

Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.

Consensus, Science

Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.

Effort, Efforts, Expensive, Focused, Government, Space

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

Astronaut, Creative, Engineer, Fly, Littles, Written

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Dream, Fun, Inspire, Know, Significant, Travel

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

Breakthrough, Breakthroughs, People, Smart, Wacky

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.

Aviation, Efforts, Forces, Space, Technology, Yield

Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

Available, Future, Simple, Sky, Twenty

We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.

Computer, Fun, Home, Importance, Pcs

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

Knows, Magnitude, Make, Orbit, Order, Orders

Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.

Achieve, Existed, Public, Spaceflight, Volume

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

Aerospace, College, Crazy, Industry, Like, People

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.

Cherry, Data, Easy, Littles, Tendency, Trying

I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.

Car, Dioxide, Energy, Seven, Technology, Years

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

Believe, Talking, People, Research, Claim

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.

Allen, Approached, Microsoft, People, Space

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