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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
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
The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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Exception Perfection Planet Work Wrong
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
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
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Failure Pregnant Program Theory Woman Yourself
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Gravity Pressure Work
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
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Children Earth Education Legacy Oneself Possession

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