Burt Rutan Quotes

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• It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a…
• 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…
• We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
• Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding
• In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries
• Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.
• Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost
• I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.
• 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…
• There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will…
• The next 15 years will see thousands of people leave the atmosphere on suborbital flights. My company's SS2 system might fly 100,000 people by 2024.…
• 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…
• 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…
• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
• The criticism is, once I get something flying, I lose interest in it.
• 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…
• 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 drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none…
• 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…
• 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…

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