Mullins worked with Lowell Grissom, brother of astronaut Gus Grissom, to attain many of the artifacts from NASA shown at the museum.

Houston plaintiffs lawyer Ronald "Ronny" Krist won the suit that established crashworthiness in Texas, and represented the widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, who was killed in the Apollo 1 pre-launch ...

Gus Grissom NASA Bio Learn More Grissom was assigned to serve as commander of the AS-204 (Apollo 1) mission. However, on Jan. 27, 1967, Grissom and astronauts Roger Chaffee, a fellow Purdue alumnus, ...

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 with it. “I’m going to ...

Key dates in the life of Gus Grissom 1959: Gus Grissom, a native of Mitchell, Ind., and a Purdue graduate, is selected as one of the Mercury 7, America's first astronauts.

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Grissom hung a lemon on the Apollo 1 spacecraft. Grissom hung the lemon on the Apollo Mission Simulator.

Last Sunday’s column about the rough landing of a radio-controlled B-17 during a 1948 air show at the District’s Bolling Air Force Base raised a few questions, one in particular.

The second Mercury mission was going according to plan until the Liberty Bell 7 capsule sank in the ocean. NASA exonerated astronaut Gus Grissom, and two researchers now say they know what happened.

Did Static Electricity — Not Gus Grissom — Blow the Hatch of the Liberty Bell 7 Spacecraft? Sixty years later, we present a plausible explanation for one of the most enduring mysteries of the space ...