NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization. Burt Rutan buildhousemarch share on social
We didn't have practical model rockets in the '50s. The ones we made were very dangerous and the kids that played with them didn't have all their fingers, and sometimes were blind in one eye. Burt Rutan 50sblinddangerous Change image and share on social
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new. Burt Rutan backlearnmoon Change image and share on social
With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline. Burt Rutan airlinebookhit Change image and share on social
Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost. Burt Rutan costdevelopextremely Change image and share on social
Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't. Burt Rutan breakthroughpeoplesmart Change image and share on social
The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself! Burt Rutan astronautcameradynamic share on social
I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked. Burt Rutan badbadlybegin share on social
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 enabled by all the PCs out there. Burt Rutan computerenablefun Change image and share on social
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. Burt Rutan aversionbureaucracycalcify Change image and share on social