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Jan 27, 2012 · The Apollo 1 crew could have been saved from a gruesome death. Plugs Out. The commander for Apollo 1 was Gus Grissom, one of the original Mercury astronauts whose first spaceflight was...
Oct 9, 2023 · Among the three pilots chosen to man the Apollo 1 mission two were the USA's most legendary astronauts, Command Pilot Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, who was the second American in space and had his hopes ...
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Grissom was born April 3, 1926 in Mitchell. He was the first of four children for Cecil and Dennis Grissom. As a teenager, Grissom sold a BB gun his father gave him to finance his first airplane ride, his father-in-law told the Evansville Courier in 1965. He would watch the clouds and earth move below him by flying small planes at a track in Bedfor...
The early Cold War was defined by the quest to conquer space. Grissom edged out a list of 110 to become one of the country’s original seven astronauts in April 1959. Grissom's space legacy began with his trip aboard the Liberty Bell 7 Mercury spacecraft. Alan Shepard was the first American in space, reaching the astral sky less than a month after C...
It was just supposed to a be routine test in preparation for a Feb. 21 launch into space. Grissom, White and Chaffe were the chosen to lead the first Apollo 1 mission -- a 14-day trip orbiting the earth. Jan. 27, 1967 was a test run. The three men suited up and entered the Apollo command module. The three men laid on their backs; their faces toward...
Tucked away in the Southern Indiana woods of Spring Mill State Park is the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" and Grissom's spacesuit. The state of Indiana established the Virigil Grissom Memorial at the park in 1971. The exhibit features personal artifacts from Grissom’s life – report cards, family photos, his degrees, an entombed corned beef sandwich and t...
Jan 28, 2017 · Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White died in a flash fire that engulfed their capsule atop a Saturn 1B rocket during a routine training operation on Jan. 27, 1967. Mr. Grissom was 40. Ms....
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Oct 10, 2018 · By RICK CALLAHAN. Published 12:10 PM PDT, October 10, 2018. 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.
Oct 11, 2018 · Associated Press. By Katharine Q. Seelye. Oct. 11, 2018. Betty Grissom, the widow of the astronaut Virgil Grissom, whose death in a launchpad fire in 1967 led her to sue a NASA contractor,...
Nov 16, 2016 · November 16, 2016. Gus Grissom just before his Gemini 3 launch in 1965. Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, was selected for the Apollo program in 1966. During a ...
