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 ...

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul G. Allen announced on Dec. 13 that he and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan have reunited to develop the next generation of space travel. Allen and Rutan, whose ...

The aerospace engineer who designed the world’s first privately financed and piloted spacecraft has announced he’ll retire next year. Burt Rutan pioneered the concept of “space tourism” at his Mojave ...

Paul Allen and Burt Rutan hope to see their history-making spacecraft claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight on the anniversary of the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik nearly ...

THE FEDERAL government has issued the first license for a private manned suborbital space flight. The honor goes to aeronautical innovator Burt Rutan, who 18 years ago designed and flew an airplane ...

WASHINGTON -- The inventor of the first private spaceship predicted Wednesday that commercial manned space flight would move quickly from joyrides for millionaires to the general public and spawn ...

The Smithsonian Institution is honoring Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aviation legend Burt Rutan with the 2005 National Air and Space Museum Trophy for Current Achievement. The award, ...

Rutan achieved the milestone with Jeana Yeager when they departed Edwards Air Force Base flying for 9 days in a specially constructed aircraft designed by his brother Burt Rutan. Richard 'Dick' Rutan ...