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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. Our God-given curiosity will force us to go there ourselves because in the final analysis, only man can fully evaluate the moon in terms understandable to other men.

Gus Grissom

Gus Grissom

Gus Grissom

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Born: April 3, 1926

Died: January 27, 1967 (aged 40)

Bio: Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, test pilot, mechanical engineer, and a United States Air Force pilot.

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