I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThere is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.
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The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.
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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.
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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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If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
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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.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
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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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Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
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Man belongs wherever he wants to go – and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
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Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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