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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun

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
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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Myself Planet Success Wrong
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
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
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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
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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Believe Forever Immortal Life Science Soul
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.
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Build Organization Practice Program Space Start Support
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
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 me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.
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Creation Design Ideas Law Necessary Order Purpose Universe
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
Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.
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Live Population Stars Sun Thinking
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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Believe Decision Frame Human Limitation Medicine Myself Problem Reality Time
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
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Dirty Fast Goodness Hands

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