Flight record
3 flights on padside's record, flying from 1961 to 1967.
Flights count launches with a definitive outcome — the same basis as the Stats page.
Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was one of the seven original National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Project Mercury astronauts, and the first of the Mercury Seven to die. He was also a Project Gemini and an Apollo program astronaut. Grissom was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice. In addition, Grissom was a World War II and Korean War veteran, U.S. Air Force test pilot, and a mechanical engineer. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with an oak leaf cluster, a two-time recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Flights
- Saturn IB | Apollo 1 (Failure before launch)January 27, 1967 · 23:31 UTC
- Titan II GLV | Gemini IIIMarch 23, 1965
- Redstone MRLV | Mercury-Redstone 4July 21, 1961
Born 1926-04-03 · died 1967-01-27