The second man behind the Stratolaunch is Burt Rutan, a giant in the ... of SpaceShipOne hinged on the unique design of the spacecraft. This was not an airplane that would take off from a runway ...

Burt Rutan said he had always loved designing airplanes and became fascinated ... "Dick never doubted whether my design would actually make it around, with still some gas in the tank," Burt ...