NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. Jerrie Cobb ...

On Jan. 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...

Gemini 2 successfully completed the second of two uncrewed test flights of the spacecraft and its Titan II booster, clearing ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.

It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Ilan and his six ...

Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. This was a significant step in the early days of space exploration, as it involved the development of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a ...

Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” Grissom. This was a significant step in the early days of space exploration, as it involved the development of a 1.5-million-pound thrust rocket engine to power a ...

The letter came just over a month after the Apollo 1 launchpad fire at Cape Kennedy that killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. The accident left NASA and its ...

Gemini pilots Frank Borman and Charles "Pete" Conrad and “original” Mercury astronauts John Glenn, Virgil "Gus" Grissom (posthumously) and Alan Shepard.

Cmdr. John W. Young and Air Force Maj. Virgil “Gus” Grissom. Intrepid then joined U.S. 7th Fleet to support combat operations off Vietnam, “During the 1966 deployment, Intrepid’s naval ...

During the Mercury and Gemini pr there were no accidents. Although, Virgil Gus Grissom nearly drowned before being plucked out of the from his Mercury flight. In 1967, Grissom died along with two ...