The seven Mercury astronauts -- Carpenter ... Now in their 70s, the Mercury seven are five. Virgil "Gus" Grissom died in the fire that swept through an Apollo capsule on the launch pad at the ...

Located in the serene Spring Mill State Park, the Gus Grissom ... The Grissom Memorial Museum not only honors Grissom’s role as one of the original Mercury astronauts but also showcases pivotal ...

What started as a commemoration of the Mercury Seven astronauts has grown ... the six surviving Mercury astronauts, Betty ...

John Glenn was the only one of the Mercury Seven astronauts to fly on the space shuttleon STS-95 in October-November 1998. The flight came 36 years after his only other space mission, Mercury ...

Ultimately, seven pilots are recruited for the ambitious Mercury program and thrust into a white-hot ... In the meantime, controversy embroils astronaut Gus Grissom (Fred Ward) after a mishap during ...

Thirteen days later, on Jan. 28, that liftoff took place, ending in a fuel tank explosion and the death of all seven crew members ... claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and ...

The Astronaut Scholarship is funded by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF), a nonprofit organization created by the Mercury 7 astronauts in 1984. The foundation strives to aid the U.S. in ...

April 9: The newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration introduces the first seven astronauts ... July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is marred when ...

We offer one-of-a-kind features such as John Glenn’s hard hat from Project Mercury ... Astronaut Trainees, find out why the astronauts hated the word “capsule”. Discover why Gus Grissom ...