Virgil "Gus" Grissom was a NASA astronaut who flew twice ... In late January, according to a NASA History biography, Grissom took a lemon off of a citrus tree in his Texas back yard and brought ...

“I didn’t give a goddamn about the White House,” said Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, the second American to travel to space and the first to go there twice. The hard-charging Hoosier was ...

Gus Grissom's death was ultimately a martyrdom ... Grissom reportedly had with him a lemon he had picked from a citrus tree from the backyard of his Texas home. According to the NASA biography ...

“Gus” Grissom, one of the Mercury 7 astronauts ... about many aspects of the early Apollo program: by hanging a lemon on the faulty Apollo simulator, for example. He also warned in the ...

Gus Grissom died 40 years ago this month ... Grissom stopped at his Texas home on the way to more launch-pad tests in Florida. Before he left, he picked a lemon off the backyard. “I’m going to hang it ...

1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed ... Not long before he died, Grissom plucked a lemon from a tree at his house and told his wife, "I'm going to hang it on that spacecraft." ...

National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom grabbed a lemon off a tree in his backyard. His wife asked what he planned to do ...

Roger Chaffee and Apollo 1 crewmates Gus Grissom and Ed White had been killed by a flash fire that swept through their capsule that day in 1967, during what was considered a routine countdown ...

Gus Grissom’s family members are tussling with NASA over a space suit the astronaut wore 41 years ago: They say they loaned it to a museum and now they want it back. Grissom wore the suit aboard ...

Fifty years ago Friday, Indiana native Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White were killed when their command module burst into flames during a flight simulation at Cape Canaveral ...

Betty Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launchpad fire, died Oct. 7 at her home in Houston.

1967: Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed ... Not long before he died, Grissom plucked a lemon from a tree at his house and told his wife, "I'm going to hang it on that spacecraft." ...