Wernher von Braun Quote

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.


Remark to a colleague after the first V-2 rocket hit London (September 1944), as quoted in Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now (1999) by Jonathan Allday, p. 85


The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.