Recent content by burt rutan

A challenge for you. I like to count rocket systems, rather than capsules. For example the Mercury capsule was boosted by two rocket systems: Redstone and Atlas. The apollo capsule was flown to space by two rocket systems: Saturn 1b and Saturn V. My claim: in the 1960s, humans were flown to...

Still more errors in the list: Orbital - you left out the upper stage of the lunar module. in 1969 it rocked astronauts from the moon into lunar orbit.. Suborbital - SpaceShipTwo has never flown to space. It has come close, by exceeding 80 kilometers. But space starts at 100 km. The USAF...