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Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher von Braun

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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
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
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
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Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Build Organization Practice Program Space Start Support
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Believe Decision Frame Human Limitation Medicine Myself Problem Reality Time
We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
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Concept Existence God Grace People Reality Remember Reveal Science
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Fun Moon Speed Tradition
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
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
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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Basic Myself Research
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
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 have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Hope Late Myself Program Space Vision Wait

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