The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUNFor my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I’d like to ask you, don’t hang up your dancing slippers.
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I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
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The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.
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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
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Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
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I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.
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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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