Wernher von Braun Quotes

It's something to see a satellite being launched from another satellite.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

I witnessed the building of the Space Shuttle Columbia, the first orbiter to be launched into space.

In 1985, the government decided to launch the first satellite. We had huge discussions then that nobody would need that kind of satellite or that it could fall from the sky.

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.

As far as the satellite itself is concerned, that doesn’t give me any apprehension at all.

The Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

If you're going to go into space, you have to have an objective, a mission. Where do you want to go? Earth orbit? The moon? Mars? What's the technology to get there? You develop the technology for the mission.

Ironically the very energy, the very basis of how we know what we know, has been reliant on having an energy source [necessary] to build rockets to go to the moon and Mars, to support airplanes that fly, and satellites to give us our communication.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

Russia can offer state-of-the-art technology, .. For example, we can help other countries launch space devices such as satellites.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reused on the second stage of New Glenn.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.