Gus Grissom

This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well,…

— Gus Grissom

In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what.

— Gus Grissom

There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight.

— Gus Grissom

It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea…

— Gus Grissom

The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low…

— Gus Grissom

I did not think my chances were very big when I saw some of the other men who were competing for the…

— Gus Grissom

As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive…

— Gus Grissom

There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the…

— Gus Grissom

I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic.

— Gus Grissom

I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would…

— Gus Grissom

I had thought training for Mercury was rigorous. Once we got caught up in the Gemini training program, our Mercury training looked…

— Gus Grissom

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens…

— Gus Grissom

I met Betty Moore when she entered Mitchell High School as a freshman, and that was it - period, exclamation point!

— Gus Grissom

If we die, do not mourn for us. This is a risky business we're in, and we accept those risks. The space…

— Gus Grissom

I never did get hit, and neither did any of the leaders that I flew wing for.

— Gus Grissom

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…

— Gus Grissom

How do you expect to get us to the Moon if you people can't even hook us up with a ground station?

— Gus Grissom

No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic…

— Gus Grissom

By the time I got into test work, it was dying out. It wasn't really flight test at all; it was mostly…

— Gus Grissom

I was stationed at the flight test center at Wright-Patterson, and I was flying a wide range of airplanes and giving them…

— Gus Grissom

When I was studying at Purdue, we learned our thermodynamics from an antique steam engine. When I went back in 1964, I…

— Gus Grissom

Do good work.

— Gus Grissom

I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right…

— Gus Grissom

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I…

— Gus Grissom

The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

— Gus Grissom