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Burt Rutan

Burt Rutan

engineer
entrepreneur
inventor
aircraft pilot
🇺🇸United States
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Lifespan
1943 – Present
Quotes
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Career Journey

Background

Born in
Estacada
Educated at
California Polytechnic State University
Awards
🏆 National Aviation Hall of Fame🏆 Presidential Citizens Medal🏆 Daniel Guggenheim Medal🏆 NSS Wernher Von Braun Memorial Award🏆 Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy

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"I strongly feel that, if we are successful, our program will mark the beginning of a renaissance for manned space flight. This might even be similar to that wonderful time period between 1908 and 1912…"

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"To have breakthroughs, you must have confidence in nonsense, okay?  That's why only weird guys tend to have the breakthroughs: a sensible person won't have a breakthrough 'cause he writes it off real …"

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"If you don't have a consensus that it's nonsense, you don't have a breakthrough."

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Timeline

  • 1943

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