Marvelous engineering of Voyager: The aircraft that traveled around the world without refuelingNearly 36 years ago, on December 23, 1986, pilots Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, designer Burt Rutan, and crew chief Bruce Evans earned the Collier Trophy, aviation's most prestigious award, according to a NASA report published in 2013.This was because their one-of-a-kind, purpose-built Voyager aircraft embarked on a non-stop, unrefueled flight around the world, setting an impressive world record at the time.I felt not only was it not going to work, but I would probably die in it," Rutan said of the Voyager, the aircraft his brother Burt Rutan designed.What was fundamentally a flying fuel tank, the Voyager lifted off Edwards' main runway early in the morning of December 14, 1986, rolling down almost the entire length of the 15,000-foot-long runway and scraping off one of its wingtip winglets before it became airborne.Today, the Voyager is enshrined in the Milestones of Flight gallery at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.Morningstar built a metaverse when Mark Zuckerberg was two years old."