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Virgil Ivan Grissom, dit Gus Grissom, né le 3 avril 1926 à Mitchell ( Indiana) et mort le 27 janvier 1967 à Cap Canaveral ( Floride ), est un pilote de l' armée de l'air américaine (USAF) et un membre des Mercury Seven, le premier groupe d' astronautes sélectionnés par la National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pour le programme Mer...
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space.
7 juin 2024 · Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom was one of NASA’s first seven astronauts, flew the first crewed mission of the Gemini Program, and was named to serve as command pilot for the AS-204 mission, the first 3-man Apollo flight.
27 janv. 2022 · On Jan. 27, 1967, with the planned launch of the first Apollo mission to carry a crew just 25 days away, Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger B. Chaffee were conducting a key test with their spacecraft on the launch pad.
L’astronaute Virgil Ivan (« Gus ») Grissom est le deuxième Américain, après Alan B. Shepard, à aller dans l’espace. Né le 3 avril 1926 à Mitchell, dans l’Indiana, il obtient un diplôme de bachelor en ingénierie mécanique à l’université Purdue (West Lafayette, Indiana).
25 juin 2024 · Virgil I. Grissom (born April 3, 1926, Mitchell, Ind., U.S.—died Jan. 27, 1967, Cape Kennedy, Fla.) was the second U.S. astronaut to travel in space and the command pilot of the ill-fated Apollo 1 crew.
Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom had been part of the U.S. manned space program since it began in 1959, having been selected as one of NASA's Original Seven Mercury Astronauts. His second space flight on Gemini III earned him the distinction of being the first man to fly in space twice.
