"Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
Robert A. Heinlein, author of Starship Troopers
"One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions." Wernher von Braun
"A human being is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft. . . It is also the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." Werner von Braun
"Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." Werner von Braun
"I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected aster[oid] moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!" Wernher von Braun, 1953
"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, 1958
"It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven." Wernher von Braun
"My friends there was dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the earth. There was 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
"I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution." Wernher von Braun
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." Wernher von Braun
