The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

- 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, it will not delay the program. The co…

- 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 nowhere else can y…

- 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 program is too valuable to this country to be…

- 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 failure, of course. This can happen …

- Gus Grissom