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There are 2 quotes matching Gus Grissom in the collection:
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
Virgil 'Gus' Grissom
Regards the dangers and importance of the mission of going to the moon, Gemini: A Personal Account of Man’s Venture into Space, published in 1968 after his 1967 death in a flash fire aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft.
How are we going to get to the Moon if we can't talk between two or three buildings?
Virgil 'Gus' Grissom
Radio transmission expressing frustration with NASA commuication equipment during the plugs out test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, 27 January 1967. Astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee would be dead two minutes later, when their command module experienced a fire in its pure oxygen enviroment.
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