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.
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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.
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.
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