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"There will be risks, as there are in any experimental programme, and sooner or later, we're going to run head-on into the law of averages and lose somebody.

"I hope this never happens, and... perhaps it never will, but if it does, I hope the American people won't think it's too high a price to pay for our space programme."

-- Gus Grissom (b. 1926-04-03, d. 1967-01-27), "a few weeks" before his death in the Apollo I fire according to a BBC story (I used a very similar -- shorter -- quote from him in 2003, from a press conference probably around the same time as this quote)