“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 on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly.”
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Gus Grissom
Gus Grissom was an American astronaut and test pilot, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. space program. He was one of the original seven Mercury Seven astronauts selected by NASA in 1959. Grissom is best known for being the second American to fly in space, after Alan Shepard. His mission, Project Mercury-Redstone 3, was aborted due to a launch pad fire, and he later served as the commander of the Apollo 1 mission, which ended in a tragic fire during a pre-flight test. Grissom died in this accident along with his crewmates Edward White and Roger Chaffee. more