Rutan achieved the milestone with Jeana Yeager when they departed Edwards Air Force Base flying for 9 days in a specially constructed aircraft designed by his brother Burt Rutan.

Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, died at a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with his brother Burt and other loved ones by his side, according to The Associated Press.

Burt’s family. I’ve known Burt longer than Dick. ... The Mojave Air and Space Port field is named after brothers Dick and Burt Rutan. “You dream it, you do it.

Rutan, a decorated Vietnam War pilot, died at a hospital in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, with his brother Burt and other loved ones by his side, according to The Associated Press.

Paul Allen and Burt Rutan hope to see their history-making spacecraft claim the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight on the anniversary of the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik ...

Dick Rutan in 1985 at the Mojave Airport in California, where his brother, Burt, designed and built the Voyager, the plane in which he would fly around the world a year later.

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway.

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway.

MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway.

Dick Rutan, who with copilot Jeana Yeager completed the first round-the-world flight without stops or refueling, died Friday. He was 85. “He played an airplane like someone plays a grand piano ...

By NICK PERRY (Associated Press) MEREDITH, N.H. (AP) — Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it ...