Dick Rutan Quotations

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

A free ride and free food are two of the three things no pilot ever turns down.

A lot of people think that all the things that could be invented have been invented. But we are just on the frontier of discovery and invention. It's a very exciting time.

Adventure is the essence of life.

The track looks excellent. Our weatherman says this is just about as good a global track as we can get, and we're real excited about it, ... We really don't want to let Mr. Hilton down this time.

The trajectory was good, the roll was off. I was worried. That wasn't the way it was supposed to be.

The space domain for manned spaceflight is no longer the domain of a huge bureaucracy spending billions of dollars. We can do it privately.

Anything that happened to the others could happen to us.