- Nacimiento
- Defunción27 de enero de 1967 · Cape Kennedy, Florida, Estados Unidos (incendio del Apolo 1)
- Nombre de nacimientoVirgil Ivan Grissom
- Altura1.70 m
- Gus Grissom nació el 3 de abril de 1926 en Indiana, EE.UU.. Fue un actor, conocido por Apollo 1 (2025) y Project Gemini: Bridge to the Moon (2008). Estuvo casado con Betty Grissom. Murió el 27 de enero de 1967 en Florida, Estados Unidos.
- CónyugeBetty Grissom(6 de julio de 1945 - 27 de enero de 1967) (su muerte, 2 niños)
- One of America's original seven Mercury astronauts selected in 1959; he was the second American to fly in outer space (21 July 1961), and the first man to fly in space twice.
- He gave his Mercury spacecraft the name Liberty Bell 7.
- He was killed on 27 January 1967, along with astronauts Roger B. Chaffee and Edward H. White II, when a fire swept through the capsule of the Apollo I spacecraft during a rocket test at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
- He nicknamed his Gemini capsule "Molly Brown", after the heroine in La inconquistable Molly Brown (1964). He had barely escaped when his Mercury capsule sank after re-entry. (See Los elegidos (1983).)
- Was a member of NASA's Mercury 7 project, introduced in April 9, 1959, only six months after the agency was established (together with Wally Schirra, Deke Slayton, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper).
- If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
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