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Hace 5 días · Virgil I. Grissom was the second U.S. astronaut to travel in space and the command pilot of the ill-fated Apollo 1 crew. He and his fellow astronauts Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee were killed, becoming the first casualties of the U.S. space program, when a flash fire swept their space.
15 de may. de 2024 · NASA. Astronaut Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom climbs into “Liberty Bell 7” spacecraft before launch on the morning of July 21, 1961. Astronaut John Glenn, Grissom’s back up, helps him into the capsule. A problem with the hatch led Grissom’s capsule to sink after splashdown. It was salvaged from the Atlantic Ocean in 1999.
Hace 3 días · School #7 in Rochester, New York, is also known as the Virgil I. Grissom School. In the early 1970s, three streets in Amherst, New York, were named for Chaffee, White and Grissom.
28 de abr. de 2024 · The three spacemen were Command Pilot Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee. The three of them were inside the craft to lead a test. The short clip...
5 de may. de 2024 · A second suborbital Mercury mission, carrying Virgil I. Grissom, followed in July. John Glenn and Friendship 7 U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., entering the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 on February 20, 1962, in preparation for launch.
28 de abr. de 2024 · LCDR John W. Young and Maj. Virgil I. Grissom, in Molly Brown, splashed down some 50 miles from Intrepid after history's first controlled re-entry into the earth's atmosphere ended the pair's nearly perfect three-orbit flight.
Hace 2 días · In his remarks President Kennedy congratulates Captain Grissom on the successful completion of the Mercury-Redstone 4 test flight (also known as Liberty Bell 7). Remarks Congratulating Astronaut Virgil Grissom After His Sub-orbital Flight, 21 July 1961 | JFK Library
