Calculated Risk

He took ’em all, and almost always got it right. Too bad Gus wasn’t the one calculating how the Command Module doors were secured on Apollo 1, but you can’t do everything yourself. Scrambling out of that sinking spalshdown was one thing, but there was no way those guys could escape the first really big NASA disaster. Gus Grissom was one of those true leaders who did it all, and led from the front.

Gus Grissom stands near Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34 during training for Apollo 1 in January 1967. NASA

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