Combat Quote by Gus Grissom

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

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 - this…

— 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 for the…

— Gus Grissom

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

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

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

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 have to…

— Gus Grissom

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

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