Topic: Burt Rutan

The Final Frontier

Throughout my career I have always been a strong believer in the power of humankind to use innovation to help solve the world's challenges. Today ...

Harvesting the Canadian Oil Sands

Don't fill in this field IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . What's the Latest Development?. . A Canadian energy company has developed new...

Approaching Peak Oil

Don't fill in this field IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Tweet . What's the Latest Development?. . Experts agree that we have already plucked...

More Water Discovered on the Moon

Don't fill in this field IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) . What's the Latest Development?. . New research has found that the moon's insides are...

A Q&A with Sir Richard

As part of its 24-hour celebration of launching new service at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport this week, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson spoke...
Chalk up another successful gliding test flight for SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's commercial spaceliner built to fly paying passengers on suborbital thrill rides. "Watching SpaceShipTwo going through its test points, circling the field and landing is thrilling indeed, especially due to the ...

Launch Vehicles

Brazil's space program suffered a major setback when its VLS-1 launcher exploded on the launchpad at its Alc ntara facility on August 22, killing 21 engineers and technicians. One of its four solid-propellant boosters appeared to have ignited prematurely and destroyed ...

Scaled Composites

Scaled Composites formerly known as Rutan Aircraft Factory is an aerospace company founded in 1982 by aircraft designer and aeronautical genius Elbert L. ? The company traces back to 1972 when Burt started Rutan Aircraft . Scaled Composites has a long history of designing ...
Renowned aerospace designer and leading architect of private space travel, Burt Rutan, has announced that he plans to retire next year.. Rutan has worked in California's Antelope Valley for more than 45 years, initially as a flight test project engineer for ...
APNewsBreak: Burt Rutan, who designed 1st private manned spacecraft, plans to retire next yearAerospace maverick Burt Rutan, who designed the historic globe-circling Voyager aircraft and the first private manned rocket to reach space, will retire next year.Rutan, 67, announced his plans ...