I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
By 1973, we had a space station, the Skylab, and we had multiple probes going up to planets. So, all this wonderful… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I don't see anything beneficial about the US spending 100 billion dollars to go back to the moon unless we learn something… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle.… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones, so they… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
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… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
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… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
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,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Within 25 years, virtual reality meetings will be essentially transparent to being there in person. Once we can do this, the idea of climbing… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
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… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access. — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
