Reading time: 3 - 4 minutes Video Time: 20 minutes 17 seconds
Today’s video is continuing off yesterday’s theme with Burt
Rutan, a distinguished aerospace engineer. He is maybe best
known for designing the Rutan Voyager, which was the first
aircraft to fly nonstop around the world, co-piloted by Jeana
Yeager and mr. Rutan. He was also the winner of the Ansari X
Prize in 2004. If you missed yesterday’s video, the X Prize
Foundation is a nonprofit institution that organizes
competitions which aim to promote innovation and
entrepreneurship. The Ansari X Prize offered $10,000,000 for the
first private organization that could create a spacecraft able
to be launched into space twice in two weeks. In this
intelligent and intriguing video, Rutan asserts that we’ve let
ourselves slide backwards in space travel development. He
passionately argues that we once again need to make innovations
in space flight a top priority, and that this needs to happen in
the private sector. Rutan discusses the renaissance of aviation
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