Author: Burt Rutan

Quotes

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

- Burt Rutan

With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

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

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

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

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

- Burt Rutan

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

- Burt Rutan

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

- Burt Rutan

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