Even as a young child growing up in the small Central Valley town of Dinuba, Dick Rutan knew that ... experimental aircraft Voyager around the world in nine days, taking off from and landing ...

“Bigger than life, in every sense of the word,” Morris said, listing off Rutan's legacy in the Vietnam War, testing planes and on the Voyager flight. “Any one of those contributions would ...

While Rutan was readying Voyager for its first flight ... The Advanced Technology Tactical Transport model was able to take off in 680 feet; the agency calculated that the full-scale aircraft ...

The Rutan Voyager aircraft takes off from California to complete the first ... like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are even planning to take passengers into orbit. Some airlines are also working ...