GREAT AVIATION QUOTES
GUS GRISSOM

We've got a bad fire - let's get out ... we're burning up.

Roger Chaffee

Apollo 1 test. Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, and Ed White were killed in the ground test.

See one other Roger Chaffee great aviation quote.

How are we going to get to the Moon if we can't talk between two or three buildings?

Virgil 'Gus' Grissom

Radio transmission expressing frustration with NASA communication equipment during the plugs out test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft, 27 January 1967. Astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee would be dead two minutes later, when their command module experienced a fire in its pure oxygen environment.

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

Virgil "Gus" Grissom

Unhappy with radio communications during the plugs-out test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft.

See one other Virgil Grissom great aviation quote.

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 conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Virgil 'Gus' Grissom

Regards the dangers and importance of the mission of going to the moon, Gemini: A Personal Account of Man’s Venture into Space, published in 1968 after his 1967 death in a flash fire aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft.

We are going to have failures. There are going to be sacrifices made in the program; we've been lucky so far. 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 conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Virgil "Gus" Grissom

He said this after John Glenn returned from space. It was published after Grissom's death in Time magazine. On 27 January 1967, astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee died from a flash fire aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a ground test.

See one other Virgil Grissom great aviation quote.