Rutan To Embrace Space, He's "Finished With Airplanes For A
While"
The guy who put Mojave, CA, on the map, SpaceShipOne into the
history books, and himself at the top of the list as the
most-admired airplane designer in decades, says the time has come
to move beyond all of the above. In recent candid talks including a
recent wide-ranging interview with well-known space writer Irene
Mona Klotz and a December 20th interview with George Nemiroff, Burt
Rutan says that Mojave won't be the only spaceport for the coming
project, that it won't -- it can't -- look like SpaceShipOne, and
that he is finished with airplanes for the time being.