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Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations
Description
"Burt told Popular Mechanics, 'If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.' Fortunately, we need not rely solely on governments for expanding humanity's presence beyond the Earth." Sir Arthur C. Clarke Burt Rutan's Race to Space chronicles how Burt Rutan has brought the world to the brink of affordable private space travel in the first complete visual record of his hundreds of designs, world records, and elite honors. Included are the more than forty aircraft and spacecraft that have successfully flown with the help of his fellow pioneers, from innovative designers to courageous test pilots.Reviews
COSMIC LOGIC (MSNBC.COM)
"Until the next-gen spacecraft actually fire up their rockets, space dreamers will have to content themselves with lower-flying adventures such as zero-gravity flights and astronaut training sessions. Or you could read the book: "Burt Rutan's Race to Space," a new volume from Dan Linehan, author of the "SpaceShipOne" coffee-table book, has just been published. While "SpaceShipOne" focused on the run-up to the rocket plane's history-making flights, "Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations" takes a wider look at the aerospace guru's career, from his days as a designer of homebuilt airplanes to his work on SpaceShipTwo. Rutan's work on record-setting long-distance aircraft such as the Voyager and the GlobalFlyer is well-known, but I was surprised to see some of the other not-so-ready-for-prime-time projects in which Scaled Composites played a role, including the DC-X rocket prototype, the Roton test vehicle and NASA's X
Author description
In 2004, Dan Linehan attended the launch of SpaceShipOne when it captured the Ansari X Prize. He has a background in physics and engineering and has written numerous articles about aviation and space. During 2006 and 2007, he spent two months studying wildlife and environmental concerns in Antarctica and its surrounds. Dan lives in Monterey, California.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780760338155
- : Motorbooks International
- : Zenith Press
- : June 2011
- : 241mm X 283mm X 17mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 215 illustrations
- : 160
- : 629.4509045
- : Hardback
- : Dan Linehan
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