Before boarding the ship, fellow astronaut Wally Schirra gave Gus Grissom a crucial warning after realizing the ship was a ...

The Gus Grissom Memorial is open year-round, offering visitors from Purdue University and beyond a chance to delve into the life of the first NASA astronaut who truly had the right stuff.

Officially, astronauts Gordon Cooper and Virgil “Gus” Grissom were stopping in Fort Wayne to shop for a trailer to be used as a dressing room at Cape Canaveral. Unofficially, most of their 71/ ...

July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is marred when, after splashdown, the hatch of his capsule blows open and the capsule sinks. The blown hatch cannot be replicated later ...

The gold Omega Speedmaster "Tribute to Astronauts" owned by Apollo 15 astronaut David Scott did not sell at auction ✓ RJ ...

His mission profile—a 16-minute suborbital flight—was also the same one astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom would later fly. Like the astronauts too, he rocketed to space aboard a Redstone ...

Six Mercury astronauts, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom, took Rathmann up on the offer, while John Glenn went with a station wagon, claiming it benefited him and his family more.

Apollo 1 CrewApollo 1 astronauts "Gus" Grissom (left), Edward White, and Roger Chaffee pose in front of the Saturn 1 launch vehicle at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On the morning of ...

In spite of this tempting fare, astronaut John Young snuck a corned beef on rye aboard to surprise Gus Grissom, who loved them. As you might imagine, bread crumbs started floating as soon as he ...