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A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.

Wernher von Braun

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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Greatness Limitation Logic Military Mission Operation War
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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Conquer Gravity Problem Universe
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn’t.
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Astronomy Live Moon Oneself Return
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it’s entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.
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Doubt Man Moon Operation Planet Possible
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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Myself Planet Success Wrong
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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Freedom Gravity Man Planet
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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Money Myself Program Promise Space
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
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Beyond Challenge Knowledge Present Reach Solution
For 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.
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Best Confirmation Gift Mom Myself
The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.
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Greatness Knowledge Pay Price Space Travel
I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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Born Children Moon Myself

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