NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America. His ...

It’s one of the great mysteries of the early space age. How did Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, after a near-perfect flight on just the second U.S. space mission, inadvertently “blow” the escape hatch ...

Object Details author Burgess, Colin 1947-,-Subject Grissom, Virgil I Liberty Bell 7 (Spacecraft) Project Mercury (U.S.) Contents Creating a Mercury capsule -- An astronaut named Gus -- Preparing for ...

Planet Comicon Kansas City, a major league pop culture convention that is returning to downtown Kansas City this weekend, is embracing “The Outsiders” and outer space. Ralph Macchio of “The ...

The Liberty Bell 7 was America’s second manned space mission. Astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom piloted the capsule, which spent only about 15 minutes in space before it came to rest in Blake ...