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1 " Trinity’s witnesses responded just as those to Apollo 11 would, as J. Robert Oppenheimer remembered: "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent." Oppenheimer later said the he beheld his radiant blooming cloud and thought of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Aloud, however, the physicist made the ultimate engineer comment: "It worked. "
― , Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
2 " When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book. "
― , Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
3 " and returning him safely to earth. "
4 " 1948: “It was all there in our emotions as they took off "
5 " Don’t say that he’s hypocritical Say rather that he’s apolitical. Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? “That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun. "