Burt Rutan&#39;s Giant Leap
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Burt Rutan isn&#39;t one to mince words. Just minutes after the world&#39;s first privately funded space craft touched down at the Mojave (Calif.
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Burt Rutan, creator of the first privately-owned manned spaceship, is a dentist&#39;s son who tested model airplanes from the window of his mother&#39;s car as a child.
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Richard Branson conquered the world. Now he wants to fly you to space. By Spencer Reiss from Wired magazine.
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The creator of  the first privately-financed craft to carry a human into space traveled to New York to show detailed models of a new bigger, model.
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SpaceShipOne, a stubby, three-seat rocket plane, hurtled to a height of 111,996m, surpassing its target altitude without the heart-stopping barrel rolls that vexed the craft&#39;s qualifying flight last week.
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MUMBAI: Here&#39;s to one significant step that may translate into a giant leap for India&#39;s moon mission. In a departure from the earlier plan, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has decided that its
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Burt Rutan and Paul Allen&#39;s spunky-looking little spaceplane had just returned to the runway after winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize, and prize founder Peter Diamandis had a message for investors around the world who might be watching.
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The most important news story of this fall, ultimately more important than the re-election of the president, was the awarding of the X Prize to Burt Rutan for his SpaceShipOne flights.
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Members of the Mojave Aerospace Ventures team: (from left) Peter Diamandis, Paul Allen, Burt Rutan, pilot Brian Binnie and Richard Branson celebrate with champagne after SpaceShipOne&#39;s second suborbital flight in early October.
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After a day spent reviewing its spectacular but wild spaceflight Wednesday, aerospace visionary Burt Rutan&#39;s team is sticking to its plan to try to capture the Ansari X Prize with a second launch on Monday.
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MOJAVE, California -- Nobody can claim that Burt Rutan, the innovative aerospace designer, doesnât have his head in the cloudsâ¦and his eyes focused on the stars.
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MOJAVE, Calif., Oct. 4--The PM.Zone was on the scene again today to watch aeronautical engineer and designer Burt Rutan and his crew at Scaled Composites in Mojave, Calif.
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A MANNED private rocketship burst through the Earth&#39;s atmosphere into space today after a hair-raising ascent, putting it half-way towards winning a $US10 million ($13.
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Frank Wilczek still remembers the physics course he took at the University of Chicago 35 years ago. The course taught by U. of C.&#39;s Peter Freund was so &quot;thrilling,&#39;&#39; he said, that he changed his major from
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I applaud Burt Rutan and the SpaceShipOne team for their miraculous achievement of winning the Ansari X Prize. As an astronaut, I understand well the challenges they faced in reaching suborbital space.
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It was billionaire Paul Allen's &#36;20 million that allowed Burt Rutan to build SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned rocket to reach space.
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I have been to zero gravity and flown like Superman. This is something that only astronauts and the stars of Apollo 13 have done before.