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 BRAUNThe 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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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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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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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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I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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.
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