Astronaut Quote by Burt Rutan

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

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

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

— Burt Rutan

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

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

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

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

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

Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

— Burt Rutan

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

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

— Burt Rutan

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