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.

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

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 ...

Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first ...

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

Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. This was a significant step in the early days of space exploration, as it involved the development of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a ...

It provides an in-depth look at the lives and families of the three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through their ...

The first crewed Gemini flight, Gemini III, lifted off of Launch Pad 19 in Cape Canaveral on March 23, 1965. [...] ...

Wendell Arden Grissom, 56, was pronounced dead at 10:13 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. "I consider this a mercy. It's going to be all right," he said in his last words after apologizing and ...