The Gus Grissom Memorial is open year-round, offering visitors from Purdue University and beyond a chance to delve into the life of the first NASA astronaut who truly had the right stuff.

However, a 2016 book by George Leopold, "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom," argues that the astronaut displayed quick thinking while in the water, including trying to ...

9, 1963. Officially, astronauts Gordon Cooper and Virgil “Gus” Grissom were stopping in Fort Wayne to shop for a trailer to be used as a dressing room at Cape Canaveral. Unofficially ...

Six Mercury astronauts, including Gordon Cooper, Buzz Aldrin, and Gus Grissom, took Rathmann up on the offer, while John Glenn went with a station wagon, claiming it benefited him and his family more.

US astronaut John Young ... orbiting the Earth that he handed the smuggled sandwich to his colleague, Gus Grissom. Nasa later rebuked him for the stunt. In May 1969 Young was part of the Apollo ...

ROVs are nimbler to deploy and have gotten larger and more capable over the years, being able to dive anywhere from 300 meters down to 7,000 meters (almost 23,000 feet). They have been joined by ...

Announcer: Three American astronauts were the victims of America’s first space oriented tragedy, in a capsule that never left the ground - Veteran spaceman Gus Grissom, space walker Ed White ...