Physicist Robert Goddard, rocketry pioneer, stands next to one of his experimental A-series rockets in front of his workshop in Roswell, New Mexico, in the 1930s.
Their research in rocketry blazed the way for space travel.
Mr Whitehorn and Mr Rutan have made no secret of their desire to see later generations of carrier aircraft and rocketry that can put people into orbit.
China's keystone space scientist Qian Xuesen, widely acclaimed as the country's "father of space technology" and "king of rocketry", died of illness in Beijing Saturday morning at the age of 98.
The city itself is a rusting 8)relic of the golden age of Russian rocketry, yet if anything, its place in the space industry is heading toward expansion.
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