JohnH wrote:

Why is it now he's not the head of NASA? Give him a few megabucks for the
beauracuracy headaches.

There isn't enough money to pay Rutan for the bureaucracy headaches. Offer him
that job, and he wouldn't stop running for a long time.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.