Virgil Ivan Grissom known as " Gus" Grissom is a American Astronaute born the April 3rd 1926 and deceased the January 27th 1967.

Biography

Virgil Grissom belongs to the first group of 7 astronauts selected for the Programme Mercury.
He will die tragically at the time of a drive on the ground, in the fire of the capsule Apollo 1.

Flights carried out

• suborbital Flight on board Mercury 4, the July 21st 1961.
• the March 23rd 1965, he is commander on board Gemini 3, first manned flight of the Gemini capsule.

Others

Its memory was honoured by the astronaut David Scott, who deposited a commemorative plaque on the moon, and by attribution with its name to a Martian formation.

Gus Grissom tells…

" There is in space a clearness, a brightness which one does not find on Earth, even by a beautiful day of summer without clouds in Rock the, and nowhere one cannot so fully seize the majesty of our Ground without being impressed with the thought that it is only one among innumerable thousands of planètes."

External bonds

• (Fr) Details of the flights carried out
• (in) official Biography on the site of NASA

Zh-min-nan: Virgil Ivan Grissom

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