Dick Rutan
Dick Rutan
Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutanis a record-breaking aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with co-pilot Jeana Yeager. He was born in Loma Linda, California, where he gained an interest in flight at a young age. He is the older brother of aerospace designer Burt Rutan...
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth1 June 1938
CityLoma Linda, CA
billions domain huge longer space spending
The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.
roll supposed trajectory
The trajectory was good, the roll was off. I was worried. That wasn't the way it was supposed to be.
vietnam aviation flight
I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.