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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.

Wernher von Braun

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
Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Acievement Simplicity Vision
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
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
I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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Born Children Moon Myself
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
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
A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.
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Dirty Fast Goodness Hands
My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
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Challenge Existence Experience God Science See Sun
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Greatness Impossible Learning Myself Word
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
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
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
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
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!
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Astronomy Hope Late Myself Program Space Vision Wait

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