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Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the sub-orbital spaceplane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize
in 2004 for becoming the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the
realm of space twice within a two week period. He has five aircraft on
display in the National Air and Space Museum: SpaceShipOne, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, Voyager, Quickie, and the VariEze.[1] Wikipedia.
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This artist's rendering shows NASA's Voyager spacecraft. On the boom to the right, the Cosmic Ray Science instrument, Low Energy Charged Particle detector, the Infrared Spectrometer and Radiometer, Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Photopolarimeter and Wide and Narrow Angle Cameras are visible. The bright gray square is an optical calibration plate for the instruments. The Golden Record, containing images and sounds from Earth, is the yellow circle on the main spacecraft body. The dish is the spacecraft's high-gain antenna for communications with Earth. The magnetometer boom stretches out to the upper left. The radio isotope thermoelectric generators, Voyager's power source, are visible to the lower left.The two long thin rods extending out to the left are antennas used by the Plasma Wave instrument. The Planetary Radio instrument also used these antennas when it was turned on.
The two Voyager spacecraft are identical. Voyager 2 was launched on Aug. 20, 1977. Voyager 1 was launched on Sept. 5, 1977.
The Voyagers were built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which continues to operate both spacecraft. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The Voyager missions are a part of the NASA Heliophysics System Observatory, sponsored by the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate.
For more information about the Voyager spacecraft, visit http://www.nasa.gov/voyager and http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov .
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Remarks by the Honorable Sean O'Keefe NASA Administrator AIAA ...
VIRGIN ATLANTIC’S GlobalFlyer will take off from the Shuttle Landing Facility for an aircraft world record attempt.
World record attempt to begin at Shuttle Landing Facility.- http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/470838main_The_Apollo_of_Aeronautics.pdf
Voyager
Rutan was approached by his brother Dick about designing an airplane that could fly nonstop, unrefueled around the world, something that had never been done before.[20] Around-the-world flights had been accomplished by military crews using in-flight refueling.[21]
Rutan developed a twin-engined (piston engines, one pusher and one tractor) canard-configured design, the Rutan model 76 Voyager.
The pusher engine ran continuously, the tractor engine was used for
take-off and initial climb to altitude, then was shut down.[22][23]
The aircraft was first flown with two Lycoming O-235 engines. After development work, it was reengined with a Continental O-200 (modified to include liquid cooling) as the pusher engine and a Continental O-240 as the tractor engine.[citation needed]
As a proving flight, Dick and his partner Jeana Yeager made a record setting endurance flight[clarification needed] off the coast of California. In December 1986, they took off from Edwards Air Force Base
in California and flew around the world (westward) in nine days,
fulfilling the aircraft's design goals. The Voyager was retired and now
has the honor of hanging in the Milestones of Flight exhibit in the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) main exhibit hall,[24] with the Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis and Bell X-1.
Spacecraft
Rutan made headlines again in June of 2004 with SpaceShipOne, which became the first privately built, flown, and funded manned craft to reach space. On October 4, SpaceShipOne won the Ansari X Prize,
completing two flights within two weeks, flying with the equivalent
weight of 3 persons, and doing so while reusing at least 80% of the
vehicle hardware. The project team was honored with the 2004 Collier Trophy, awarded by the National Aeronautic Association
for "greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America."
The craft embodies Rutan's unique style, and is another of the "icons of
flight" displayed in the NASM Milestones of Flight exhibit.[32]
Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, announced that it would begin space tourism flights in 2008 using craft based on the designs of SpaceShipOne. Dubbed SpaceShipTwo,
these new craft, also designed by Burt Rutan, are intended to allow six
"experience optimized" passengers to glimpse the planet from 70–80
miles up in suborbital space. Production of the first of five planned
SpaceShipTwo craft has started, but commercial flights did not begin in
2008 as planned. An explosion at the Scaled Composite factory at the Mojave Spaceport
on July 26, 2007, which killed three engineers and seriously injured
three others, may have contributed to the delay. They were testing
components for SpaceShipTwo, but as of August 2007 Scaled Composites remained dedicated to perfecting the design of SpaceShipTwo.[33] Virgin continues to work on developing SpaceShipTwo, but it has stopped predicting when commercial spaceflights will begin. [34]
Burt Rutan is also working with t/Space in the development of an air launched, two-stage-to-orbit, manned spacecraft. It is intended to have a taxi capacity to carry passengers to the International Space Station. In June 2005, air drop tests of quarter scale mockups verified the practicality of air release and rotation to vertical.[35]
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