Gus Grissom had just entered the history books. A mere 10 weeks after Alan Shepard made America’s first human flight into space, Grissom followed with the second one, a 15-minute suborbital hop ...

New Evidence Shows That Gus Grissom Did Not Accidentally Sink His Own Spacecraft 60 Years Ago Careful analysis of the recovery film showed it was static electricity that doomed the Liberty Bell 7.

Gus Grissom, in the scenario we present here on the 60th anniversary of his flight, can at last be fully exonerated from blame for prematurely blowing the hatch of Liberty Bell 7.

Virgil "Gus" Grissom was a NASA astronaut who flew twice in space and was selected to command the first Apollo manned mission as well. He died, however, when a fire erupted in his spacecraft in ...

Indiana astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who grew up in tiny Mitchell, Indiana, and went on to become one of NASA's first astronauts, and was slated to become one of the first astronauts to land on ...

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.

Gus Grissom NASA Bio. Learn More Grissom was assigned to serve as commander of the AS-204 (Apollo 1) mission. However, on Jan. 27, 1967, Grissom and astronauts Roger Chaffee, a fellow Purdue alumnus, ...

Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts, was selected for the Apollo program in 1966. During a launchpad test of the command module the following year, he and crewmates Ed ...

NASA says Gus Grissom took it for a school demonstration in 1965 and never returned it; his wife calls that assertion nonsense, citing the fact that her family moved with it to Texas in 1962. Today, ...

Betty Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launchpad fire, died Oct. 7 at her home in Houston.

Maurice "Gus" Lee Grissom was born March 13, 1948, in Independence, Iowa, the son of Morris Frank and Maxine Velma (Werner) Grissom. Maurice passed away at his home in Morrilton, Ark., on Oct. 23 ...

Gus Grissom, in the scenario we present here on the 60th anniversary of his flight, can at last be fully exonerated from blame for prematurely blowing the hatch of Liberty Bell 7. The authors wish to ...