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deep-space-netwerk · 8 months

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God so @literallymechanical told me about this the other day and I'm still laughing about it. So, Gus Grissom was a one of the original seven Project Mercury astronauts, and was actually the second American to go to space, and the second American to go to space twice. He was also a short king but we'll get to that in a bit. Here he is with the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule, nicknamed the Liberty Bell 7!

Mercury-Redstone 4 was the second US manned spaceflight, and there were some complications after its splashdown in the Atlantic ocean when the emergency explosive bolts unexpectedly fired, opening the hatch and flooding the thing. Our boy Gus had to tread water in his spacesuit while he waited for rescue, nearly drowning the entire time. The Liberty Bell 7 couldn't be retrieved, and is currently at the bottom of the ocean.

When Gus was selected as the pilot for the first manned Gemini flight, he became heavily involved in the design of the spacecraft cockpit. He also happened to be the shortest of the original astronauts at 5'7" tall. Literally, after he was done with it, 14 out of the 16 existing astronauts could not fit inside. They had to completely change the cockpit design for future missions.

NASA didn't learn its lesson about Gus and decisions, so they let Gus give his Gemini capsule a nickname, and it went about as well as you'd expect. This is the excerpt from his Wikipedia article (image description in alt text):

Fucking hilarious. There's a specific brand of humor you see in the early US space program that I just adore. It’s a phenomenal mix of like, 60's dry military humor (all these guys were airforce pilots), and the sheer incredulity of doing something as insane as going to space. Sometimes, you just gotta laugh and name your dinky little space car after the Titanic, because the first one fucking SANK IN THE OCEAN.

#space #astronaut #mercury program #gemini program #gus grissom #spost #space post #nasa

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commodorez · 6 months

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Gemini 3 Interior

Grissom Memorial, Spring Mill State Park, Mitchell, IN

#gemini 3 #gus grissom #project gemini #gemini

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lonestarflight · 1 month

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Gemini III final inspection

"Technicians from the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, which was responsible for producing the Gemini capsule, make final inspections to the Gemini III spacecraft. The photo is taken in the white room, a sterile environment where the spacecraft was prepared for launch, atop the Titan launch vehicle at Pad 19 at the Kennedy Space Center. Gus Grissom and John Young would ride the spacecraft into orbit for the first Gemini mission on a five-hour trip into space on March 23, 1965."

Date: March 23, 1965

NASA ID: S65-21090

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gusgrissom · 3 months

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Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) Edward Higgins “Ed” White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967)

The crew of Apollo 1. Ad astra per aspera ❤️

#apollo 1 #gus grissom #ed white #roger chaffee #NASA #astronauts #*#I'll never forget how you changed the world and changed my life #I'm so grateful to the three of you forever. I love and miss you always #more than we could ever find the words for

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all-action-all-picture · 2 months

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Edward White II, Spacewalk by Robert McCall from 1966 depicting White's Gemini IV space walk in June 1965, the first by an American, launched 3 June 1965 and returned 7 June.

White died on 27 January 1967, along with Gus Grissom and Roger B Chaffee, during a pre-launch test for Apollo I.

Robert McCall died on 26 February 2010.

#robert mccall #edward white #ed white #gemini iv #gemini 4 #03jun #07jun #1965 #roger b. chaffee #gus grissom #virgil ivan gus grissom #26feb

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jennrg · 2 months

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(Credit to NASA)

#gus grissom

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oldkitty · 1 year

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NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes

#youtube #Apollo 1 #gus grissom #ed white #roger chaffee #challenger #columbia #ad astra per aspera #apollo astronauts #nasa #astronauts #charles bassett #elliot see #ted freeman #robert h lawrence jr #michael j adams

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floating-hasselblad · 7 months

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Grissom and Lovell are moons 😭

And Gagarin too

#im so happy #starfield #jim lovell #yuri gagarin #also bradbury and heisenberg #gus grissom

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dgtrekker · 3 months

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“We are 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.” -Gus Grissom

(Remembering the astronauts who gave their lives 57 years ago, in the Apollo 1 fire.)

#apollo #apollo 1 #gus grissom #ed white #Roger b. Chaffee

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rabbitcruiser · 3 months

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Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on January 27, 1967.

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stone-cold-groove · 1 year

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The launch of Liberty Bell 7 carrying astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom - 1961.

#nasa #mercury #mercury redstone #liberty bell 7 #gus grissom #man in space #space travel #astronauts #1961 #the 60s #rockets #us space program

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commodorez · 3 months

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Scenes from the Grissom Memorial

Spring Mill State Park / Mitchell, Indiana

#gus grissom #grissom memorial #gemini #gemini 3

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lonestarflight · 5 months

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Astronauts John W. Young, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Thomas P. Stafford and Virgil I. Grissom (left to right) are shown during egress training during Gemini-Titan III (GT-3) simulation launch at Pad 19.

Date: November 24, 1964

NASA ID: S64-40298