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 ...

"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 ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts ... also in the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs. However, the missions were not without tragedy: Gus Grissom lost ...

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.” ...

the head of the astronaut office with a long record of space firsts to his name, including the first manned Gemini flight alongside Gus Grissom. Young was the obvious choice as commander.

Scott Carpenter, L Gordon Cooper Jr, John H Glenn Jr, Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, Walter Schirra Jr, Alan Shepard Jr and Donald Slayton. These were the names of the first American astronauts introduced ...

“We were so proud when we were gonna show Gus Grissom, one of, of course, the astronauts there of what’s going on. And he came in, and he looked at it, and he said, ‘Look like a GP train wreck.

Life aboard the International Space Station (ISS) presents unique challenges and experiences for astronauts. They follow a strict schedule of scientific experiments, exercise, and station maintenance.

Space travel presents unique physiological and psychological challenges for astronauts, including muscle weakening, bone loss, and blood redistribution. Maintaining healthy weight and gut health ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts’ return to Earth has been postponed owing to weather conditions. The astronauts, Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze, were originally due to land ...