"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 ...

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.” ...

When growing up as a child, many now have the dream of becoming an astronaut in ... went to space. Grissom flew a suborbital Mercury mission in 1961 and the first Gemini mission in 1965.

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 ...

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 ... the astronaut on the review ...

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 ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire ... 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II, and Roger B. Chaffee.