I first became familiar with Gus Grissom through films like “The ... not only honors Grissom’s role as one of the original Mercury astronauts but also showcases pivotal moments from his ...

"We were founded 40 years ago in 1984 by, at that time, the six surviving Mercury astronauts, Betty Grissom − the wife of Gus ...

The original seven Mercury astronauts don their spacesuits in ... He mourned the death of commander Gus Grissom as he would a good friend’s. Indeed, when Barbree talks about the Mercury Seven ...

Six Mercury astronauts, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom, took Rathmann up on the offer, while John Glenn went with a station wagon, claiming it benefited him and his family more.

March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first ... commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of ...

His mission profile—a 16-minute suborbital flight—was also the same one astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom would later ... survive a journey in the tiny Mercury spacecraft.

Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left), Edward White ... is a space capsule similar to the spacecraft of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, as well as Russia’s Soyuz ...

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 ...

Project Mercury Gallery This room pays tribute ... the astronauts hated the word “capsule”. Discover why Gus Grissom is the only astronaut to wear a women’s panty girdle into space ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. When is Mercury retrograde? It starts today, and if you believe astrologers, the days between August 5 and 27 will be full of ...