# Burt Rutan sees the future of space

In this passionate talk, legendary spacecraft designer Burt Rutan lambasts the US government-funded space program for stagnating and asks entrepreneurs to pick up where NASA has left off.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2006
- Runtime: 19 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/BurtRutan_2006)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/BurtRutan_2006?play=1)