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* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: "Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."
** This became a [[Shout-Out]] in ''[[Space Cowboys]]'' as "Shepard's Prayer".
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]:
{{quote|'''Life Magazine publisher Henry Luce:''' Now, I want them all to meet my people who will write their true stories, Naturally these stories will appear in Life magazine under their own bylines: For example, "by Betty Grissom", or "by Virgil I. Grissom", or...
'''Gus Grissom:''' Gus!
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'''Luce:''' Ivan... ahem... well. Maybe Gus isn't so bad. Might be something there.... All right, all right. You can be Gus.}}
* [[Eagle Land]]: Unapologetically.
* [[Embarrassing Middle Name]]: Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom. Not only was his first name ''personally'' [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|embarrassing]], but his middle name would have been a propaganda embarrassment. This IS the Cold War Space Race, after all.
* [[Fauxlosophic Narration]]: The beginning narration, which poetically describes the sound barrier as a "demon that lives in the air."
* [[Fee Fi Faux Pas]]: "I bet you're gonna hang our picture on your wall."
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