‘Dreams, dreams, without dreams man is a bird without wings. And now I’m very close to the greatest dream of mankind. In every century men were looking at the dark blue sky and dreaming.’
SERGEI PAVLOVICH KOROLEV, to his wife, NINA, 1957
‘Sweeping around the earth in a fixed orbit, like a second moon, this man-made island in the heavens … could be the greatest force for peace ever devised or one of the most terrible weapons of war.’
WERNHER VON BRAUN, Collier’s, March 1952