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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.

Wernher von Braun

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
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Live Population Stars Sun Thinking
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Himself Man Path Travel
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Different Dimension Moral Murder Science
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
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
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
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Doubt Man Moon Operation Planet Possible
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Conquer Gravity Problem Universe
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
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Knowledge Pay Price Space Travel
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
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Belief Death Existence Nature Spiritual Strength Teaching Transformation
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
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Fun Moon Speed Tradition

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