If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
WERNHER VON BRAUNThe 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.
More Wernher von Braun Quotes
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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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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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
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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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It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
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