Throughout his career, he would celebrate that day as his anniversary day, his cherry tree day, and he would regularly read and reread the works of Verne and of Wells in order to renew his inspiration and his commitment over the decades of labor and effort that would be required to realize the first part of his dream: the flight of a liquid fuel rocket, which he finally achieved in 1926.
در زندگی حرفه‌ای خود، او آن روز را جشن می‌گرفت و روز سالگردش، روز درخت گیلاسش، و بارها کارهای ژول ورن و ولز را می‌خواند تا الهام و تعهد خود را در طول دهه‌ها کار و تلاش موردنیاز برای تحقق نخستین بخش از رویایش تجدید کند: پرواز یک موشک سوخت مایع، که بالاخره در سال ۱۹۲۶ به آن دست یافت.