Virgil Ivan Grissom
1926-1967
American engineer and astronaut who was the second American in space during a 1961 suborbital Mercury test flight in the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, which sank in the Atla...
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Today is Saturday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2007. There are 338 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B....
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Today is Monday, April 9, the 99th day of 2007. There are 266 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. ...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test.But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronaut...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test.But from the Apollo 1 command module at Pad 34 came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronaut...
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It was supposed to be a routine launch pad test. But from the Apollo 1 command module came a panicked voice saying, "Fire in the cockpit."Exactly 40 years later, the three Apollo astronauts who wer...
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Today is Saturday, July 21, the 202nd day of 2007. There are 163 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 21, 1861, the first Battle of Bull Run was fought at Manassas, Va., resul...
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Although he typically shuns attention, former astronaut Neil Armstrong on Saturday addressed a crowd at the dedication of a new engineering building named for him at Purdue University, his alma mat...
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Today is Sunday, Jan. 27, the 27th day of 2008. There are 339 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 27, 1967, astronauts Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. C...
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Walter M. Schirra Jr., one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts and the only man to fly on NASA's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, died Thursday. He was 84.Schirra, who commanded the first ...
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Virgil Ivan Grissom
Grissom, Virgil "Gus"
Today in history - Jan. 27
