{"product_id":"9781610602600","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 \u003ci\u003ePopular Mechanics\u003c\/i\u003e, “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\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBurt Rutan’s Race to Space\u003c\/i\u003e 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":"Zenith Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148158910704,"sku":"9781610602600","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781610602600_p0.jpg?v=1763841352","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781610602600","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}