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Gus Grissom Quotes

1926–1967 United States

Virgil Ivan Grissom (3 April 1926 – 27 January 1967), more widely known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly into space.

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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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gus Grissom (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.