6 Wernher von Braun Quotes on Space

Wernher von Braun quotes on space

8. Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back...

14. It 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.

15. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.

19. The mastery of space is man's greatest adventure and his most inspiring undertaking. It should spur us to maximum effort. The nation which mastered all of man's earthly environment- land, sea and air- owes to its destiny the mastery of the limitless environment of space.

20. 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.

22. There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program- your tax-dollar will go further.