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 ...
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, ...
A LETTER up for auction reveals the jealousy astronauts felt after John Glenn was picked to be the first American to orbit the Earth. Within the famously competitive group, Glenn had emerged as the ...
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A history of Europe’s four winds: The “first and smallest wind, one I have never heard of before, blows across a northwestern corner of England. It is called Helm, and its headquarters, it seems, is a ...
The known and unknown perils of space stayed their hand last week as the U.S. shot a second man into space with almost clockwork success. What made the second flight less successful than the first ...
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 ...
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 ...
(AP) In October 1961, Gus Grissom glumly confided to his mother in a letter that is now up for auction that he and his fellow Mercury 7 astronauts resented John Glenn after he was picked to be the ...
I'll admit, I was worried. But The Astronaut Wives Club Season 1 Episode 8 honors the story of Gus Grissom's death in a beautiful way. The past several episodes have whisked us through history without ...
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 ...