‘It seems that nature jealously keeps its secrets and even here, where the mind of human beings is able to open it up – every step to something new and unexplored is achieved by a narrow margin with a high price to pay … We have such a short period of our life for creating something.’
SERGEI PAVLOVICH KOROLEV to his wife, NINA,
28 September 1960
‘If we do not match the ambitious Communist programme to visit the Moon and the planets … we may in the not too distant future, be surrounded by several planets flying the Hammer and Sickle flag …’
WERNHER VON BRAUN interviewed by VICTOR RIESEL
for the Hall Syndicate, 21 January 1959