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Anyone can build complicated. Our actions are determined by simplicity.

— Sergei Korolev

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We are all going to be shot, and there will be no obituary.

Today the dreams of the best sons of mankind have come true. The assault on space has begun.

Why congratulate me? We are miners, no one knows our names, we work underground.

The time will come when a spacecraft carrying human beings will leave the earth and set out on a voyage to distant planets to remote worlds. Today this may seem only an enticing fantasy, but such in fact is not the case. The launching of the first two Soviet Sputniks has already thrown a sturdy bridge from the earth into space, and the way to the stars is open.

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