“I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.”

— Wernher von Braun

Taped TV interview, broadcast on WMAL, Washington, (7 January 1972), as reported in "Birth of Child on Moon Foreseen by von Braun", New York Times (7 January 1972), p. 14

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