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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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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
Aerospace Engineer
Architect
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Military Personnel
Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
Rocket Scientist
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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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!
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I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.
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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.
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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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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To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.
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