Before the team boarded the ship, a fellow astronaut, Wally Schirra, pulled Gus Grissom aside and uttered some crucial words of warning, after ascertaining the ship was a death-trap. Schirra told ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In spite of this tempting fare, astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef on rye aboard to surprise Gus Grissom, who loved them. As you might imagine, bread crumbs started floating as soon as he ...

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been ... continued with a renewed purpose and diligence. Frank Borman, the astronaut on the review committee, became the main liaison with contractor ...

Discover why Gus Grissom is the only astronaut to wear a women’s panty girdle into space — or why Al Shepard traveled skyward in a “wet suit.” Learn about interesting local legends like ...

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