- [Opening intertitle]
- The Author: "Never" does not exist for the human mind... only "Not yet."
- Professor Georg Manfeldt: Progress on earth will not fail because of learned ignoramuses who totally lack in fantasy and whose brains operate in inverse proportion to their calcification!
- Professor Georg Manfeldt: The day will come that the first space ship will fly to the moon to bring its gold back to earth!
- Wolf Helius: The spaceship "Friede" - peace - is ready for takeoff. At moonrise the spaceship will alight into space. And, God willing, we will land - thirty-six hours later - on the far side of the moon.
- Der Mann am Mikrophon: At that moment, all bells will ring, sirens of all factories, trains and ships all over the world will sound in honor of the pioneers of space navigation!
- Stud. astr. Friede Velten: Helius is convinced that he'll find water with the divining rod!
- Ingenieur Hans Windegger: The only thing we're going to find on the moon is... Death.
- Stud. astr. Friede Velten: Helius, do you want to shame me as a woman? The eyes of the world are on us - the ears of the world are listening.
- Stud. astr. Friede Velten: At work, at the laboratory, in this room... you often called me your good comrade.