There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

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.

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 . . . . There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars-both literally and figuratively-is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.

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

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

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