Burt Rutan Quotes About Nasa

Quotes about: Nasa

• NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

  Burt Rutan

  Order, Should Have, Organization

• NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

  Burt Rutan

  Risk, Innovation, Aversion

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 01, 2004.

• A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

  Burt Rutan

  Creative, Littles, Astronaut

  Source: bigthink.com

• NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.

  Burt Rutan

  Research, Development, Doing Nothing

  Source: bigthink.com

• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, People, Microsoft

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

  Burt Rutan

  Running, Space, Luck

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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