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May 15, 2024 · NASA. Astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom climbs into “Liberty Bell 7” spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John Glenn, Grissom’s back up, helps him into the capsule. A problem with the hatch led Grissom’s capsule to sink after splashdown. It was salvaged from the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.
May 10, 2024 · The helicopter crew watched the hatch fly off, and Grissom climbed out of the capsule and swam away. At first, the recovery team focused on attaching the recovery pole to the loop atop the capsule. The helicopter was hovering just above the surface, and Liberty Bell 7 was already underwater.
May 8, 2024 · At 6:31 p.m. on February 21 — ahead of the crew's intended launch — Grissom, White, and Chaffee sat in their craft on their launch pad going through a countdown simulation. They sealed their hatches and flooded the environment with oxygen — then a fire erupted in the module. The crew howled for help while others ran to rescue them.
May 15, 2024 · Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn are selected for the initial flights. Left-to-Right: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. The aircraft in the photograph is a Convair F-106B-75-CO Delta Dart, 59-0158, a two-place supersonic interceptor trainer.
May 7, 2024 · The fire spread quickly in the oxygen-filled atmosphere of the capsule, killing the crew within seconds. The space crew, flight commander Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, were...
2 days ago · Spaceflight began in the 20th century following theoretical and practical breakthroughs by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard, and Hermann Oberth, each of whom published works proposing rockets as the means for spaceflight. [a] The first successful large-scale rocket programs were initiated in Nazi Germany by Wernher von Braun.
