Ingenious. Tireless. Masterful. Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur Burt Rutan turns ideas into winged vehicles that soar, take powered flight, and now rocket into space, safely returning to land ...

Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and test pilot for SpaceShipOne, the experimental space plane created by aeronautical pioneer, Burt Rutan, and his innovative company, Scaled ...

Brian Binnie rides on SpaceShipOne after his flight to win the Ansari X Prize on Oct. 4, 2004. A new book chronicles the SpaceShipOne saga. Before it was ever named SpaceShipOne, the world's first ...

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On Sunday, June 20th, a day before the launch of SpaceShipOne from the Civilian Flight Test Center in Mojave, Calif., the onlookers began rolling into the parking lot—a convoy of cars and RVs, ...

Space Adventures®, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today the results of an informal survey of the over 100 people who have paid deposits to fly on a suborbital vehicle.

SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned rocket to fly into space, has been named Time magazine's "Invention of the Year" for reviving the dream of spaceflight for regular folks. The honor is ...