The Gus Grissom Memorial is open year-round, offering visitors from Purdue University and beyond a chance to delve into the life of the first NASA astronaut who truly had the right stuff.

In Episode 2 of "Unsolved Histories," called "The Wreckage," Feliks Banel examines how and why the DC-7C airliner disappeared ...

Astronaut John Young smuggled a deli corned beef sandwich to share with his fellow astronaut Gus Grissom until they realized breadcrumbs were floating around, which could be a safety threat during ...

Everyone knew it would happen one day, spaceman Virgil “Gus” Grissom knew. Virgil “Gus” Grissom: “My crew has been serving the nation and serving the country, and here is another ...

His mission profile—a 16-minute suborbital flight—was also the same one astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom would later fly. Like the astronauts too, he rocketed to space aboard a Redstone ...

July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is marred when, after splashdown, the hatch of his capsule blows open and the capsule sinks. The blown hatch cannot be replicated later ...

Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left), Edward White, and Roger Chaffee pose in front of the Saturn 1 launch vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the morning of ...

I mourned with the rest of the country when a flash fire in January of 1967 killed the crew in what would have been Apollo 1, including Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Two flights of the ...

It stood on the edge of a green lawn and across an alley from the childhood home of Virgil “Gus” Grissom, one of NASA’s first seven astronauts. Inside the house, now a museum, his mother’s ...

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