I thought this might be interesting for all - 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 <http://www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=755&c=18&pg=2> &c=18&pg=2 Iain _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
