"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 ...

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-inch (1 ...

Astronaut John W. Young caused beef between NASA and congress by smuggling an illicit sandwich onto a space mission.

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.

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.

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died ... is going to take the risk and get on as we did in Mercury and Gemini, or we will not have a manned-space-flight program.” ...

Gus Grissom, in cufflinks and crew cut, is intent on a gimbaled training device designed to demonstrate how astronauts would regain attitude control should their spacecraft tumble. He’s ...

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 ...

Six Mercury astronauts, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom, took Rathmann up ... popular that it continued on through both the Gemini and Apollo programs and ended in 1971.

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 ...