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Burt Rutan, Speaker at the San Jose Center for The Performing Arts


Agilent and Mentor Graphics are co-sponsors of the upcoming San Jose
Science, Technology and Society Lecture Series which launches its First
Season at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday, November
30th, 2004, featuring Burt Rutan (see information below). The series
explores the latest technological advances and scientific discoveries
dramatically altering our understanding of the universe and our role in
it. Tickets for the lectures are available through City Box Office.


SpaceShipOne: The New Frontier of Commercial Space Travel with BURT
RUTAN, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Adventurer

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004
8 p.m. 
San Jose Center for Performing Arts
Sponsored by: Agilent Technologies and Mentor Graphics
"The next 25 years will be a wild ride. . . one that history will note
was done for the benefit of everyone." With SpaceShipOne "we proved
access to space can be achieved by a small company operating with
limited resources and a few dozen dedicated employees." Burt Rutan
Winner of the $10 million X-Prize, described by Newsweek as "the man
responsible for more innovations in modern aviation than any living
engineer", Burt Rutan is a bold entrepreneur and designer with the
passion for the advancement of technology. A flight test engineer for
the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War, Rutan is the founder and CEO
of Scaled Composites, the most aggressive aerospace research company in
the world. Based in Mojave, California, his company has developed and
flight-tested a large variety of groundbreaking projects, from military
research aircrafts and executive jets to a racing plane and gondolas for
Richard Branson and Barron Hilton. 

 

http://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=755
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Iain

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