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...One result was his backing of the private space entrepreneur Burt Rutan....
...Scaled Composites, a Mojave-based group founded by space pioneer Burt Rutan built the craft destroyed in the 2014 crash. The Spaceship Company has also now taken over the testing programme....
...They might recall the words of the rocket ship’s designer, Bert Rutan....
...Mr Rutan added that his “goal” was to make the Virgin space craft “as safe as the early commercial airliners that were introduced in the late 1920s”....
...This is far from what Sir Richard took on a decade ago by allying Virgin with Burt Rutan’s Scaled Composites, winner of the 2004 Ansari X-Prize for space flight....
...And now, Richard Branson’s company Virgin Galactic is developing SpaceShipTwo with Burt Rutan....
...It was won in 2004 by aerospace designer Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. http://space.xprize.org/ansari-x-prize 2....
...Spaceship engineer Burt Rutan will participate. There is a vogue for such private space companies....
...Mr Rutan has lived for many years in Mojave, 100 miles north of Los Angeles....
...Not least was being designed by Burt Rutan – who is currently busy building the flying machines that will take the first of Virgin Galactic’s customers to the edge of space....
...The Virgin Galactic spacecraft is being built by Burt Rutan whose company, Scaled Composites, won the Ansari X Prize by flying to sub-orbital space and returning safely....
...For Rutan, work comes before family. When a manager tells him after nine months in Mojave he misses his wife at home in Alabama, Rutan replies: “Is that all? We can get you one of those.”...
...That prize was won in 2004 by aerospace entrepreneur Burt Rutan, who has since joined Richard Branson to try to create a space tourism industry....
...This costly hobby killed the country singer John Denver, who died when he pressed the wrong pedal on an experimental Rutan Long EZ. John F....
...Rutan, unsurprisingly, holds a different view....
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