Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the Sun. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, father of cosmonautics. I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go. The important thing is not to stop questioning. When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back. - Plutarch 27. Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.
Freedom lies in being bold.
I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered. It may be said that the development of science in the field of space flight and related research will be of great significance for the progress of human culture. If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program.