Sixty years ago, a NASA astronaut’s antics on a spaceflight into low-Earth orbit sparked a national controversy in the U.S.

Astronaut John Young likened it to sitting sideways in a phone booth. That compactness earned it the moniker Gusmobile, after Gemini 3 commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom, whose diminutive 5-foot 7 ...

Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first two-person spaceflight. Launched 60 years ago today, the mission marked a ...

"Gus" Grissom. "Gus really had a big hand in everything ... and I could move to within inches of it in perfect confidence." The Gemini astronauts had achieved history's first rendezvous in ...

On March 23, 1965, the United States launched the Gemini III spacecraft with astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John Young aboard, America's first ...

Officially, astronauts Gordon Cooper and Virgil “Gus” Grissom were stopping ... revealed plans for a Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 rendezvous, a space first, Grissom expressed surprise.

Astronaut John W. Young, the pilot for Gemini III, checks over his helmet ... and offered it to his commander, Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom. The pair tried nibbling at the sandwich but found ...

Norman Rockwell In his painting called Grissom and Young, American painter and illustrator Norman Rockwell captures ...

Lowell Grissom speaks about his brother, Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who was commander of Apollo 1. And Ed White III and his sister Bonnie recall their father, who two years prior to ...