They called it the Gusmobile. That's "Gus" as in Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. "Gus really had a big hand in everything, from the way the cockpit was laid out to what instruments went where," says John ...

The documentary tells the story of Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad.

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 sat on the ocean floor for 38 years before being recovered in 1999. NASA Seven years after it was fished from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Gus Grissom’s Liberty ...

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 ...

Officially, astronauts Gordon Cooper and Virgil “Gus” Grissom were stopping in Fort Wayne to shop for a trailer to be used as a dressing room at Cape Canaveral. Unofficially, most of their 71/ ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

HOUSTON — On March 23, 1965, Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first two-person spaceflight.

He offered fellow astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, mission commander some but soon realized it probably wasn't the best snack for the flight. The transcript from the mission says it all.

Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee had been selected as the crew for Apollo 1, the first flight of the next generation of spacecraft succeeding the Gemini program. On January 27, 1967 ...