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Burt Rutan: Entrepreneurs are the future of space flight

http://www.ted.com In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: January 12, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 0:20:17
Rating: 4.84
Views: 21,760

Tags: Burt Rutan TED TEDTalks Talks space NASA X-Prize rocket SpaceShipOne "space tourism" spacecraft

Video Comments:

calapanpo (Friday 17th of October 2008 08:22:41 PM)

probably heard this before but Apollo 13 didn't say "houtson we have a problem" they said "houston we've HAD a problem" just a small difference

Berdwerd (Monday 13th of October 2008 07:48:37 PM)

ya i thought i was quick witted with sarcasm, but he almost got even me with the plant life jab lol

1schwererziehbar1 (Saturday 4th of October 2008 11:43:58 AM)

elvis is right. i think we'll witness a lot of progress in space travel the next years. just as we did with computers in the nineties. it has yet begun.

purger37 (Thursday 7th of August 2008 07:23:23 AM)

My son is 4 now, when he turns 6 I'll show him this video, along with other similar ones. I hope it will inspire him to try and reach the stars.

DMCpro6944 (Sunday 27th of July 2008 05:20:37 PM)

well he is right about giving kids/adults more creativity and ispiration ,instead of garbage food and stupid tv programs.

johnsmdm (Saturday 14th of June 2008 12:19:57 PM)

cmon Rutan, plant life on Mars?

clannon (Monday 23rd of June 2008 01:45:37 PM)

um, sarcasm.

brianlo777 (Sunday 18th of May 2008 07:04:46 AM)

lols, r u retarded thats not the dream the dream is to further the progress of spaceflight by using money from rich billionaires

joshatkins94 (Sunday 18th of May 2008 11:26:23 AM)

Well, rich billionaires have a lot of spare money. So they don't need a large amount of profit from an extra business. FWIW, I admire Burt Rutan hugely, and yes, I was a bit harsh in the comments, but it is a lot of comments and I think it can be done cheaper. Nonetheless, he's an incredible innovative aerospace engineer - most probably the best aerospace engineer alive today - he's not greedy, and he's very enthusiastic. My comments probably misrepresented my opinion of him; he's a pioneer.

joshatkins94 (Sunday 18th of May 2008 11:28:24 AM)

Seriously, I look up to him. I was wrong. That's a full blown apology; sorry. Who knows when space tourism would have started had it not been for SpaceShipOne/Tier 1. Typo: a lot of comments -> a lot of profit

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