They don't hand out Ph.D.s in test piloting, but you pick up a tremendous amount of scientific and engineering knowledge along the way. After all, when you take up a brand new plane and put it through its paces to… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly testing new gadgets. — 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
