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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

Wernher von Braun

Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Beyond Challenge Knowledge Present Reach Solution
To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Concept God Science Simplicity Violent
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Best Confirmation Gift Mom Myself
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification 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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Limitation Logic Military Mission Operation War
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Freedom Gravity Man Planet
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Basic Myself Research
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 best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Best Computer Man Production Skills
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Live Moon Oneself Return
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Creation Design Ideas Law Necessary Order Purpose Universe
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself

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