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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

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.
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Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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Fun Moon Speed Tradition
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
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Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
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.
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Himself Man Path Travel
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Gravity Pressure Work
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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Best Computer Man Production Skills
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
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
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
Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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Ability Himself Inspirational Man
All one can really leave one’s children is what’s inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.
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Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Acievement Simplicity Vision
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
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!
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Astronomy Hope Late Myself Program Space Vision Wait
The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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Destroy Fly Force Nature Ourselves Stars

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