The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low for the past few days. All of us are mad because Glenn was picked. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea - this… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low for the… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I did not think my chances were very big when I saw some of the other men who were competing for the team. They… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would have to… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I had thought training for Mercury was rigorous. Once we got caught up in the Gemini training program, our Mercury training looked pretty soft. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point! — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space program is… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I never did get hit, and neither did any of the leaders that I flew wing for. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
