Attaboy, Gus! Pull that stuff on flight test, it's all over for him. I say he screwed the...
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Jack Ridley:
[talking to TV]
Attaboy, Gus!
[talking to Yeager]
Jack Ridley:
Pull that stuff on flight test, it's all over for him. I say he screwed the pooch, pardner. Plain and simple.
Chuck Yeager:
Yeah, well, sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed, ya know?
Liaison Man:
[chuckling]
Exactly! Right now the President's got his own problems with the Bay of Pigs, he doesn't want the astronauts' image tarnished. Nothing these guys do is gonna be called a failure. You'd think the public would know they're just doing what monkeys have done.
Chuck Yeager:
Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sittin' on a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? I'll tell you somethin'. Takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially when it's on TV. Ol' Gus, he did alright.
Transcript
He is shouting to save
the capsule first.
To pull all that in flight test,
it's all over for him.
He screwed the pooch.
Plain and simple.
Sometimes you get a pooch
that can't be screwed.
The president's got his own problems
with the Bay of Pigs.
He doesn't want the Astronauts' image
tarnished.
Nothing these guys do is going
to be called failure.
These Astronauts are our Davids.
The public knows they're just
doing what monkeys have done.
Monkeys?
You think a monkey knows he's sitting
on a rocket that might explode?
These astronauts know that.
I'll tell you something.
It takes a special man to volunteer
for a suicide mission.
Especially when it's on TV.
Old Gus, he did all right.
Though the capsule was lost...
...our new hero,
Astronaut Gus Grissom, was saved.
Now President Kennedy has started
an even more ambitious space program.
Those who came before us...
...made certain this country...
...rode the first waves
of the Industrial Revolution...
...the first waves of modern invention,
and the first wave of nuclear power.
And this generation does not intend...
...to founder in the backwash...
...of the coming age of space.
We mean to be a part of it.
We mean to lead it.
Clip duration: 125 seconds
Views: 451
Timestamp in movie: 00h 00m 00s
Uploaded: 13 December, 2020
Genres: adventure, biography, drama
Summary: The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe
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03:37 We're public figures
00:36 There's another hold from NASA
00:41 What do you have to do to get your picture up there anyway
01:33 What are you two rookies gonna have
00:34 The hatch just BLEW
00:41 Request permission to relieve bladder
01:24 I'm tired of being forthright
00:23 The first American into space is not going to be a...
00:53 Make another note here
00:25 I'll tell you something
00:11 You damn right it is
00:21 You boys know what makes this bird go up
00:18 Who was the best pilot I ever saw
00:13 Not very funny
00:27 Squirming Hatchblower
00:20 Anybody that goes up in the damn thing is gonna be Spam in a...
01:47 And as I was sayin'
00:15 Sounds dangerous
00:39 Congratulations
00:29 Star Voyager Gus Grissom