Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipTwo has completed its first “feathered flight.” Soon this lovely ship will be operating from the New Mexico Spaceport, just a couple hundred miles south of here.
Lektu, I think you are correct. It is Burt Rutan. But Dick Rutan is also a pilot (of the Voyager light aircraft that flew around the world). Easy to get them mixed up.
Oh! Lovely! Bless our post-NASA adventurers and inventors one and all.
“Dick Ruttan”? Isn’t he called Burt Rutan?
Thanks for posting that. Cool to watch.
Lektu, I think you are correct. It is Burt Rutan. But Dick Rutan is also a pilot (of the Voyager light aircraft that flew around the world). Easy to get them mixed up.
Right. Burt Rutan is the aerospace engineer, Dick Ruttan is the guy I went to high school with.
I’ll try to keep them straight in the future.
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