Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom was also a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, Grissom was the second American to fly in space in 1961. He was also the second American to fly in space twice, preceded only by Joe Walker with his sub-orbital X-15 flights.
Grissom was a World War II and Korean War veteran, mechanical engineer, and USAF test pilot. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with an oak leaf cluster, two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
As commander of AS-204 (Apollo 1), Grissom died with astronauts Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original...
husband GusGrissom, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, died in the first fatal accident in the history of the United States space program. Ms. Grissom has...
Complex 34 on January 27 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot GusGrissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the...
by NASA on April 9, 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, GusGrissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The Mercury Seven created...
together with the other surviving Mercury astronauts and Betty Grissom, GusGrissom's widow, Shepard founded the Mercury Seven Foundation, which raises...
base was renamed Grissom Air Force Base in 1968 in memory of astronaut and Indiana native Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF, who, along...
Grissom may refer to: Grissom, North Carolina, unincorporated community Grissom (surname) GusGrissom, one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts...
American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts GusGrissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which...
changed. Petersen and Zuiker decided to rename the character "Grissom," after astronaut GusGrissom, of whom Petersen was a great admirer. The name Gil came...
Mitchell on Indiana Highway 60. It contains a settler's village, the GusGrissom Memorial (with the accompanying Gemini 3 space capsule), a nature center...
Aerospace Engineering there on August 28, 1956. While at AFIT, Cooper met GusGrissom, a fellow USAF officer, and the two became good friends. They were involved...
Bassett II February 28, 1966 Aircraft accident Elliot M. See Jr. Virgil I. Grissom January 27, 1967 Apollo 1 fire Roger B. Chaffee Edward H. White II Vladimir...
Group 3 recruit, whereas See was an Astronaut Group 2 recruit from 1962. GusGrissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were in the Apollo 1 capsule for plugs-out...
landing once. One of the moonwalkers was a trained geologist. Of the 32, GusGrissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed during a ground test in preparation...
orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, after Alan Shepard, GusGrissom and Glenn. Commissioned into the U.S. Navy in 1949, Carpenter became...
celestial navigation for lunar flight in the Apollo program. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom (Houston CAPCOM) Roger B. Chaffee (CAPCOM) Eugene Cernan (CAPCOM) Mass:...
went on, in 1998, to become the oldest man to fly in space, aged 77. GusGrissom was the first American to fly in space twice and was the commander of...
ventilation inlet valve which almost led to the drowning of astronaut GusGrissom: at the end of the MR-4 mission the hatch cover blew off while in the...
statement in 1965 declaring "Jeh-mih-nee" the "official" pronunciation. GusGrissom, acting as Houston capsule communicator when Ed White performed his spacewalk...
T-38 Talon jet trainer). Islands Chaffee (Roger B. Chaffee), Grissom (Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom) and White (Ed White) are named after the Apollo 1 astronauts...
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