Astronaut on moon next to American flag and lunar rover - Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock On March 23, 1965, NASA launched astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young ...
HOUSTON, Dec. 3, 2005 — -- Gus Grissom had "the right stuff." One of NASA's original seven astronauts, Grissom's Liberty Bell Seven mission was just the second manned U.S. space flight. Today, ...
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Betty Lavonne Grissom, the widow of astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom who successfully sued a NASA contractor after his death in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91. Mark Grissom said ...
AN ANNUAL PAUSE TO HONOR THOSE KILLED WHILE PURSUING THE STARS. OUR SPACE COAST BUREAU CHIEF, SCOTT HEIDLER, ATTENDED A CEREMONY WITH ASTRONAUT FAMILY MEMBERS AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER. A BELL RINGS ...
For about 15 minutes on July 21, 1961, American astronaut Gus Grissom felt at the top of the world – and indeed he was. Grissom crewed the Liberty Bell 7 mission, a ballistic test flight that launched ...
Selected as one of NASA's original Seven Mercury Astronauts, Gus Grissom would go on to become the first man to fly in space twice and later give his life to the NASA space program. This book unearths ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A relic from America's first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo ...
A new tribute opened Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dedicated to the lives, accomplishments and memories of the three astronauts who ...
Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91. Mark ...