Aerospace & Aviation

• Founder and chairman emeritus of Scaled Composites, one of the most aggressive aerospace research companies in the the world.
• Named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Inc. magazine and described by Newsweek as "the man responsible for more innovations in modern aviation than any living engineer."
• In 2004, made international headlines as the designer of SpaceShipOne, the world's first privately built manned spacecraft to reach space.
• Rutan designed the legendary Voyager, the first aircraft to circle the world nonstop without refueling. Also developed the Ultralite, an all-composite 100 mpg show car for GM, and the Proteus "affordable U-2" aircraft.
• Winner of the Presidential Citizen's Medal, and included in Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World."

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Notable CSU Graduates in Aerospace & Aviation

Yvonne Cagle	Tracy Caldwell	Gregory Chamitoff	Adriana Ocampo Uria
Ellen Ochoa	Burt Rutan	Frederick (Rick) Sturckow