Wernher von Braun Quotes

'Star Trek' says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.

Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know. Whether it will be done, I am not quite certain. But I would bet it can be done.

Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.

It's a pity I flew only once. A space flight is like a drug - once you experience it, you can't think of anything else.

It's hardly a secret that I'm skeptical of declarations that the aliens are out and about on our planet. Still, I try to answer every one of these mails and phone calls because, after all, it's not a violation of physics to travel from one star system to another.

The Space Program is an investment of the nation’s future…. Humans will not be confined to this planet forever.

Humanity is not forever chained to this planet.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.

In the future we're going to have interplanetary, we're going to have two planets that human beings are living on.

Galactic plankton is undoubtedly out there, but it's statistically highly likely there's also another intelligent civilisation out there somewhere. Unfortunately, the distances and time differences are so great, communication might remain impossible.

I'd like to jump a couple hundred years into the future and work with the scientists who are getting back the first information from our probes to planets orbiting nearby stars.

The best would be to fly in space with family and friends.

Most of my work is science fiction, with many a spaceship but few cars.

New earths, new themes expect us.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

And from, you know, small ideas, bigger ideas emerge. So we're starting with suborbital space flights and we'll then go into orbital space flights and, you know, maybe one day we'll send people on a one-way voyage into the depths of space as per the science fiction trips.

The universe is a big place. If I was lost up there, how would you ever find me

Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely possible we will have flown with men to the outer planets.

I remember at the age of six regaling my poor little sister with stories about the planets, and how far away they were and which ones might have life.