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Shuttlecocks and Rocket Ships

Burt Rutan is known as the aviation godfalls at a slow, controlled speed. The
responsible for creating all kinds offlight pattern of the birdie gave Rutan
freaky planes. He created the Voyager,a design parameter for SpaceShipOne. The
the first plane to fly around the worldbirdie enabled Rutan to not only come up
on a single tank of fuel, among manywith a lightweight reentry system, but
other revolutionary and record-breakingalso to design the craft as such that it
experimental aircrafts.dramatically simplifies the pilot's role
In the fall of 2004, Rutan and his teamupon reentry. The craft could basically
won the Ansari X Prize, a $10 millionnavigate itself because of the
award to the first civilian company thataerodynamically stable design.
could launch the equivalent of threeThe SpaceShipOne technology is now
people into space twice within 14 days.licensed for use in a fleet of
Many people believe that the propulsioncommercial spacecraft. The technology
or rocket forces would be the biggestwill be utilized by Virgin Galactic, a
technological issue to overcome, butcompany that aims to be the first space
much of that technology was borrowedtourism company to provide sub-orbital
from other sources. One of the biggestflights to the public.
obstacles for Rutan's SpaceShipOneThe Ansari X Prize competition was
flight was re-entry.designed to spur civilian spaceflight
When an object is going 20,000 to 25,000innovation, but ten million is a measly
miles per hour in orbit, it willprize when you consider that NASA does
literally slam into the atmosphere uponnot have the capabilities to complete
re-entry. The vehicle hits thethis feat - and a NASA shuttle launch
atmosphere extremely hard and fast andcosts something like a $ billion each!
slows down very quickly over a shortThink about that for a moment. One of
amount of time, which creates a greatthe biggest technological
deal of heat. Although there were provenaccomplishments of our lifetime was
re-entry systems that Rutan's team couldsolved by a fifty cent badminton birdie.
have utilized, the current systems wereWhether Burt was consciously doing it or
too heavy for his aircraft.not, he was using a creative thinking
To solve this problem, Burt askedtool called "Random Entry." This is
himself, "Rather than slamming on thewhere you take a seemingly unrelated
brakes, what would happen if I tappedword or concept and study it in detail
them instead? What if I reenter over ato find the connections. To find the
much longer period of time and makesimilarities. Random Entry stimulus is
re-entry a slower process to give timeevery where. You are surrounded by it.
for the heat to bleed off?" He figuredYou just have to open your eyes.
that if he could accomplish that goal,Some of the simplest ways to get this
he could apply a much lighter thermalrandom stimulus is to pick a word,
protection system that would not weighpicture, or object. Randomly point to a
down the craft. However, no suchword in a book or newspaper. Type in a
re-entry process existed.word in Google and click on the images
To solve his problem, Burt looked to thetab. Pick any picture. What does that
sports world. He thought aboutimage make you think of relative to new
basketball, baseball, and football, butsolutions to your problem? As far as
he really hit the gold mine when heobjects; Pick anything around you.
considered a badminton birdie.What can you create using existing
When you play badminton, you hit thetechnologies and ideas? Do you think
birdie as hard as you can. The birdiethat your creativity might one day
flies up to the top of the net and thenchange the world?



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