Virgil "Gus" Grissom was a NASA astronaut who flew twice in space and was selected to command the first Apollo manned mission as well. He died, however, when a fire erupted in his spacecraft in ...

A member of the Mercury Seven – the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 by NASA for the United States’ first attempt at manned spaceflight – Virgil “Gus” Grissom was a true aerospace pioneer.

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.

“Let me tell you, you can hurt yourself in the ocean.” Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was the second youngest of the Mercury Seven astronauts NASA announced to the world on April 9, 1959. They were ...

White Trophy and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal. Memorials: Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom State Memorial located at Spring Mill Park near Mitchell, Ind. 1959: Gus Grissom, a native of Mitchell ...

Backdropped by this palpable sense of unease, 1967 dawned. Commander Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, America’s second man in space, was joined on Apollo 1 by Senior Pilot Ed White, the nation’s ...

Lowell Grissom speaks about his brother, Mercury astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who was commander of Apollo 1. And Ed White III and his sister Bonnie recall their father, who two years prior to ...

Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee made up the first crew in the Apollo program. The three were scheduled to launch on Feb. 21 of that year for a flight that would orbit Earth.

Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. This was a significant step in the early days of space exploration, as it involved the development of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a ...

Roger Chaffee was just 31 years old when he and fellow astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, also a Purdue alumnus, and Ed White were killed during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission on Jan. 27, ...

Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91.