Wernher von Braun said the rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet

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Wikiquote records this as a sourced quotation of Wernher von Braun. Its sourcing note: 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

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Wikiquote: Wernher von Braun. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

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

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