Located in the serene Spring Mill State Park, the Gus Grissom ... The Grissom Memorial Museum not only honors Grissom’s role as one of the original Mercury astronauts but also showcases pivotal ...

What started as a commemoration of the Mercury Seven astronauts has grown ... the six surviving Mercury astronauts, Betty ...

Tom Wolfe's 1979 novel, "The Right Stuff" (turned into a hit movie a few years later), told the story of the Mercury Seven ... astronauts, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom ...

The first class of NASA astronauts, dubbed the ‘Mercury 7,’ were put through a series of rigorous tests to prepare them for space, from heat chambers to to simulated weightlessness. Apollo’s ...

GUEST: This is an autographed picture of the original Mercury astronauts ... evaluations of the original team of astronauts. So we have Wally Schirra, Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn ...

April 9: The newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration introduces the first seven astronauts ... July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is marred when ...

The Astronaut Scholarship is funded by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization created by the Mercury 7 astronauts in 1984. The foundation strives to aid the U.S. in ...

We offer one-of-a-kind features such as John Glenn’s hard hat from Project Mercury ... Astronaut Trainees, find out why the astronauts hated the word “capsule”. Discover why Gus Grissom ...