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 Atlantic after splashdown (the capsule was recovered in 1999). After earning...
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was a United States Air Force pilot and a NASA astronaut. A native of Mitchell, Indiana, he was the second American to fly in space. He was killed during a training exercise and test for the...
It suited him An unseemly wrangle over a hero's clothes LIEUTENANT-COLONEL Virgil Ivan Grissom--Gus for short--was lucky enough to be the first man to travel in space twice. He was also unlucky enough to wind up half-drowned and humiliated when his first...
Brewers Notes Grissom, Burnitz get break Lopes gives slump-ridden outfielders a day off By DREW OLSON of the Journal Sentinel staff Wednesday, August 30, 2000 Slumping outfielders Marquis Grissom and Jeromy Burnitz, targeted by boo-birds during the Milwaukee...
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. Chaffee died in a flash fire during a test aboard...
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. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.On this...
