re: #230 EmmmieG

Well, I’ve found a website that lists his feeling that he didn’t think that the Apollo program would succeed, but it’s also positing that he was murdered on purpose by NASA, which lowers the believability a bit.

Well, you’ll find a lot of conspiracies surrounding this. And it wasn’t that he thought it wouldn’t succeed. It’s just that the first command module was poorly built. He also hung a lemon on the simulator because they didn’t keep up with the design changes on the actual command module. Or another account…

Gus was packing his things and getting ready to leave for Cape Kennedy. Betty Grissom wrote in her book Starfall that her husband “went out in the courtyard and pulled a lemon off our tree. It was a Texas lemon, really as big as a grapefruit. ‘What are you going to do with the lemon?’ Betty asked. ‘I’m going to hang it on that spacecraft,’ Gus said grimly and kissed her good-bye.” Unknown to both of them, this would be the last time they saw each other.