Chief Scientist Quotes in The Right Stuff (1983)

Chief Scientist: I agree with those who say we could launch a pod.

Lyndon Johnson: A pot?

Chief Scientist: A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean, vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.

Lyndon Johnson: Spaceman?

Chief Scientist: SPE-CI-MEN.

Lyndon Johnson: Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?

Chief Scientist: A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a jimp.

Lyndon Johnson: JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?

Chief Scientist: A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.

Chief Scientist: Our Germans are better than their Germans.

Alan Shepard: Request permission to relieve bladder... Gordo... Gordo?

Gordon Cooper: Look, the man has got to go! Now it's either that or we get out the lug wrench and pry him out...

Chief Scientist: [with resignation] Do it... in the suit.

Gordon Cooper: José, permission to wet your diapers anytime son.