By Dan Linehan,Mike Melvill
ISBN-10: 0760338159
ISBN-13: 9780760338155
Years in the past, Burt Rutan informed a reporter for Popular Mechanics, “If we make a brave determination just like the aim and software we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we are going to see our youngsters or grandchildren in outposts on different planets.” mythical science-fiction author Arthur C. Clark might later remember Rutan’s quote in a section he wrote approximately SpaceShipOne and remark, “Fortunately, we'd like no longer depend completely on governments for increasing humanity’s presence past the Earth.”
Burt Rutan’s Race to Space showcases Rutan’s herculean efforts to do exactly that. Smithsonian’s Air and house Museum monitors his such a lot celebrated achievements, together with SpaceShipOne, which gained the coveted $10 million Ansari X Prize for personal spaceflight; Voyager, which hangs with SpaceShipOne within the Milestones of Flight gallery; the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer; and the VariEze. His many aerospace thoughts previous his so much lately conceived designs, SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo, chronicle a revolutionary, step by step try and holiday boundaries with engineering knowledge and a wondrous mind's eye, the entire whereas last at the vanguard of the burgeoning deepest spaceflight undefined. Rutan’s X Prize triumph and next spacecraft designs are usually not a starting, nor an finish, yet are steps in Burt Rutan’s carrying on with event to extend humanity’s presence past the Earth and into space.
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