It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

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

It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.

The same forces of nature which enable us to fly to the stars, enable us also to destroy our star.

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers.

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.