Space Race Quotes

“If we die, we want people to accept it. We’re in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the programme. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.”
― Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens

“Anybody spending $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts,’ declared Eisenhower.”
― Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens

“The end of the war had seen the Soviet Union broken and impoverished. Now, not much more than a decade later, their totalitarian system had, it seemed, produced a legendary flag to wave at the West.”
― Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens

“A ruthless foe established on a space station could actually subjugate the peoples of the world,”
― Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens

“man can live or work far beyond the earth’s atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.”
― Deborah Cadbury, Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens