{"product_id":"b0053f2bm2","title":"Burt Rutan's Race to Space: The Magician of Mojave and His Flying Innovations","description":"\u003cp\u003eYears ago, Burt Rutan told a reporter for  Popular Mechanics , “If we make a courageous decision like the goal and program we kicked off for Apollo in 1961, we will see our children or grandchildren in outposts on other planets.” Legendary science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clark would later recall Rutan’s quote in a piece he wrote about SpaceShipOne and comment, “Fortunately, we need not rely solely on governments for expanding humanity’s presence beyond the Earth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurt Rutan’s Race to Space  showcases Rutan’s herculean efforts to do just that. Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum displays his most celebrated achievements, including SpaceShipOne, which won the coveted $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight; Voyager, which hangs with SpaceShipOne in the Milestones of Flight gallery; the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer; and the VariEze. His many aerospace innovations preceding his most recently conceived designs, SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo, chronicle a progressive, step-by-step attempt to break barriers with engineering know-how and a wondrous imagination, all the while remaining on the forefront of the burgeoning private spaceflight industry. Rutan’s X Prize triumph and subsequent spacecraft designs are not a beginning, nor an end, but are steps in Burt Rutan’s continuing adventure to expand humanity’s presence beyond the Earth and into space.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67923412582645,"sku":"YSL50047","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/91BBkIg_KyL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793672000","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b0053f2bm2","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}