Detail A Maverick in Flight   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8787 (Jun. 2012), page S19-S20. Topik: Space Exploration; Aerospace Engineering Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.72 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel As NASA, America's space agency, comes to terms with the shuttle's retirement, Burt Rutan, an aerospace engineer and advocate of private spaceflight, is at the vanguard of a movement to reassert America's dominance in space using commercial spacecraft, and in the process open it up to the general public. In 2004 a reusable spaceplane he designed called SpaceShipOne completed the first manned private spaceflights, winning the $10m Ansari X prize. Scaled Composites, the aerospace company Mr Rutan founded, is now developing a larger SpaceShipTwo craft for Virgin Galactic, a space-tourism company. And Mr Rutan recently unveiled his boldest design yet: what would be the largest aircraft ever, dubbed Stratolaunch, which would carry and launch a rocket capable of reaching orbit. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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