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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Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Born April 3, 1926Mitchell, Indiana
Died January 27, 1967Kennedy Space Center,Cape Canaveral, Florida
American astronaut
Gus Grissom. © Bettmann/Corbis. Rep...
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Virgil Ivan Grissom
Grissom, Virgil "Gus"