The Economist (US), December 14th, 2002
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 sub-orbital flight in 1961 ended messily. The explosive bolts on his capsule's hatch malfunctioned after splashdown, flooding and then sinking the spacecraft. Unlike fellow Project Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and John Glenn, he was not invited to meet President Kennedy. Grissom was cleared by NASA, but rumours that he had accidentally b...
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