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It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.
Wernher von Braun
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Wernher von Braun
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: March 23
Died: 1977
Died: June 16
Aerospace Engineer
Architect
Engineer
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Military Personnel
Non-Fiction Writer
Physicist
Rocket Scientist
Wirsitz
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
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Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
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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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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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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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Nature does not know extinction all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
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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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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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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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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
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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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I believe that the time has arrived for medical investigation of the problems of manned rocket flight, for it will not be the engineering problems but rather the limits of the human frame that will make the final decision as to whether manned space flight will eventually become a reality.
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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.
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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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One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.
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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 will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
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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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There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
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Our sun is one of a 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing in that enormous immensity.
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