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.
وخلال حياته المهنية، سيحتفل بذلك اليوم يوم الذكرى السنوية لهذه الرؤية يوم شجرة الكرز خاصته وكان يقرأ ويعيد قراءة أعمال فيرن وويلز بانتظام لتجديد إلهامه والتزامه على مدى عقود من العمل والجهد الذي قد يتطلبه لتحقيق الجزء الأول من حلمه: رحلة الصاروخ ذو الوقود السائل، التي حققها أخيرًا في عام 1926.