Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epic flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts, ... By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable. -Burt Rutan

 

Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epic flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts, ... By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.


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In fact, it's more dangerous to fly in space in America now than it was earlier. It certainly is more expensive...more difficult, ... We've been relying on our taxpayer-funded research organization, Na Say, excuse me, NASA.

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At first, it will be real rich people, hundreds of them flying into suborbital space. But what will happen is you'll run out of real rich people real quickly.

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If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough. -Burt Rutan
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We can show that we can move right into an industry to fly the public at the level of safety that the early airliners had.

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Just like when early airplanes were flying in 1910, we didn't know what the benefits are, but we were doing it because it was fun.

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Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epic flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts, ... By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable. -Burt Rutan
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As opposed to the first 44 years of manned spaceflight, ... the difference is people are going to know that it is for them.

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