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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.

Wernher von Braun

It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Errors Mistake Qualification Yourself
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.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Dance Earth Friendship Moon Myself Yourself
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Basic Myself Research
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Freedom Gravity Man Planet
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
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
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Gravity Pressure Work
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
Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Doctor Help Man Medicine Preparation Science Space
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
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Myself Planet Success Wrong
I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind the existence of the universe as it is to comprehend a theologian who would deny the advances of science.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Difficult Existence Myself Science Understand Universe
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Money Myself Program Promise Space
One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Expert Goodness Oneself Opinion Worth
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
It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
WERNHER VON BRAUN

Chance Honesty Life Man Planning Possible Presentation Science Theory Universe

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