"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 ...

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 ...

Krist also represented the widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who died in a pre-launch fire in 1967, and family member of astronauts killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Ronald "Ronny ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...