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'''Gus Kerman''' is the head of Space Program Operations.
 
 
== Description ==
 
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Gus Kerman is head of Space Program Operations and all-around repairs guy whenever something around here breaks down, and he's the reason why all our pods have windows.
 
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== Trivia ==
 
 
The original description for Gus read "[w]e hope nothing catches fire while he's here."  This was thought to be a rather dark reference to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom Gus Grissom], one of the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire.  Squad had forgotten who had written it or why, but for [[1.2]], the description was changed to "and he's the reason why all our pods have windows," to refer to Grissom's insistence (and the insistence of the other Mercury 7 astronauts) that the Mercury capsule ("''That'' is a spacecraft, sir.  We do not refer to it as a 'capsule'.  ''Spacecraft''.") have a window (and full pilot control in general).  A dramatized depiction of the "discussion" may be see in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAyJiNobfY8 this clip] from ''[[wikipedia:The Right Stuff (film)|The Right Stuff]]''.
 
 
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