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FLIGHT LINE PREP. - ASTRONAUTS SLAYTON, GRISSOM, SCHIRRA

FLIGHT LINE PREP. - ASTRONAUTS SLAYTON, GRISSOM, SCHIRRA

M61-00012 (20 Jan. 1961) --- Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. pictured on the flight line climbing aboard a F-106 aircraft. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration

SUIT TEST - ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, NASA Mercury project

SUIT TEST - ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, NASA Mercury project

G61-00490 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, wearing the new Mercury pressure suit, is preparing for centrifuge training. He is receiving assistance in adjusting the breathing apparatus which is atta... More

Astronaut Grissom on level 3 in front of Liberty Bell 7 capsule

Astronaut Grissom on level 3 in front of Liberty Bell 7 capsule

S61-03698 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, suited up and ready to climb into Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, sits in front of his capsule for a picture. Behind him technicians work inside the capsule. T... More

Astronauts Grissom and Young in Gemini Mission Simulator

Astronauts Grissom and Young in Gemini Mission Simulator

S64-25295 (March 1964) --- Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (right) and John W. Young, prime crew for the first manned Gemini mission (GT-3), are shown inside a Gemini mission simulator at McDonnell Aircraft ... More

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-3 PRIME CREW - SIMULATION - ASTRONAUTS GRISSOM & YOUNG - MISSION CONTROL CENTER (MCC) - MSC

GEMINI-TITAN (GT)-3 PRIME CREW - SIMULATION - ASTRONAUTS GRISSOM & YOU...

S65-14547 (26 Feb. 1965) --- The Gemini-Titan 3 prime crew, astronauts Virgil I. Grissom (left), command pilot, and John W. Young, pilot, are shown during flight simulation test activity at the Mission Control Center.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, and NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson stand under space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Glenn is at the space center to mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission. Robinson was the payload commander of STS-95.          Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1444

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, and NASA astro...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, and NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson stand under space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1493

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks durin...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb.... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1494

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks during...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --A crowd looks on during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1509

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --A crowd looks on during the "On Shoulders of Gi...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --A crowd looks on during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts Scott Carpenter, left, and John Glenn listen to remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1488

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts Scott Carpenter, left, and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts Scott Carpenter, left, and John Glenn listen to remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-95 astronaut Steve Robinson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1510

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-95 astronaut Steve Robinson speaks during ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- STS-95 astronaut Steve Robinson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 2... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1492

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana talks to guests in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display during a 50th anniversary celebration of the first orbital flight of an American. The astronaut who made that first flight, John Glenn, is at the space center to commemorate that achievement. Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. He later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission.           Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1446

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana talks to guests in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display during a 50th anni... More

Artwork: "Power Plant & EC-135's/Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana". Artist: Stowe Myers. (US Air Force Art Collection)

Artwork: "Power Plant & EC-135's/Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana". Art...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

An Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), 72nd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), 434th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB), Indiana (IN), KC-135R aerial refuels a US Air Force (USAF) 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma (OK), C-5B Galaxy cargo aircraft during the aerial refueling competition portion of the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition at McChord AFB, Washington (WA)

An Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), 72nd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS)...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Billy Johnson, USAF Release St... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Flowers and plaque are in place in front of the Space Mirror Memorial at the KSC Visitor Complex for the ceremony held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee.  Members of their families, along with KSC Director Bill Parsons, Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier, President of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation Stephen Feldman and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation William Potter, attended the ceremony.  The mirror was designated as a national memorial by Congress and President George Bush in 1991 to honor fallen astronauts.  Their names are emblazoned on the monument’s 42-½-foot-high by 50-foot-wide black granite surface as if to be projected into the heavens.  Photo credit:NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd0174

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flowers and plaque are in place in fron...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Flowers and plaque are in place in front of the Space Mirror Memorial at the KSC Visitor Complex for the ceremony held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: ... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --  Ed White III touches his father's name engraved in the Space Mirror Memorial at the KSC Visitor Complex.  White attended the ceremony held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee.  Members of their families, along with KSC Director Bill Parsons, Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier, President of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation Stephen Feldman and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation William Potter, attended the ceremony.  The mirror was designated as a national memorial by Congress and President George Bush in 1991 to honor fallen astronauts.  Their names are emblazoned on the monument’s 42-½-foot-high by 50-foot-wide black granite surface as if to be projected into the heavens. Photo credit:NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-07pd0180

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Ed White III touches his father's name ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Ed White III touches his father's name engraved in the Space Mirror Memorial at the KSC Visitor Complex. White attended the ceremony held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --   The Space Mirror Memorial, seen in profile, is reflected in the nearby lake at the KSC Visitor Complex.  The memorial is the scene of a ceremony being held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee.  The mirror was designated as a national memorial by Congress and President George Bush in 1991 to honor fallen astronauts.  Their names are emblazoned on the monument's 42-1/2-foot-high by 50-foot-wide black granite surface as if to be projected into the heavens. Photo credit:NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd0181

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Mirror Memorial, seen in pro...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The Space Mirror Memorial, seen in profile, is reflected in the nearby lake at the KSC Visitor Complex. The memorial is the scene of a ceremony being held in remembrance of the ... More

Senior Master Sgt. Michael Melendez, 434th Air Refueling

Senior Master Sgt. Michael Melendez, 434th Air Refueling

Senior Master Sgt. Michael Melendez, 434th Air Refueling Wing‘s recruiting flight chief, comes to Grissom with more than 28 years of military service, 16 of those years serving in the recruiting career field. (... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

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Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

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Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

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Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Mercury Project, America Space Program

Mercury Project, America Space Program

Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's (ABMA) Development Operations Division, poses with the original Mercury astronauts in ABMA's Fabrication Laboratory during a 1959 visit. In... More

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, VIRGIL I. - MERCURY SPACECRAFT - EGRESS TRAINING

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, VIRGIL I. - MERCURY SPACECRAFT - EGRESS TRAINING

S61-03885 (26 April 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, wearing the new Mercury spacesuit, stands outside of a mock-up of the Mercury capsule on the deck of a ship taking him to emergency water egress ... More

Astronaut Virgil Grissom in new Mercury Space Suit during egress training

Astronaut Virgil Grissom in new Mercury Space Suit during egress train...

S61-03893 (26 April 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, wearing the new Mercury spacesuit, poses for a picture during emergency egress training activities at the Florida Space Center. He is seen standi... More

GRISSOM, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

GRISSOM, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

S61-02898 (21 July 1961) --- Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) ?Liberty Bell 7? spaceflight, enjoys a meal aboard the recovery ship, USS Randolph, following his 15-minute, 37-secon... More

Photograph of Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John H. Glenn, Jr. Awaiting Word from Aurora 7 Flight

Photograph of Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and John H. Glenn, Jr. A...

Original caption: Veteran U.S. spacemen await word from Project Mercury Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter as he returns to earth following 3 trips around the globe May 24, 1962. Left; Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, pilot ... More

ASTRONAUTS Young and   Grissom - TRAINING - SIMULATOR - CAPE

ASTRONAUTS Young and Grissom - TRAINING - SIMULATOR - CAPE

S64-40294 (19 Nov. 1964) --- Astronauts Virgil I. Grissom (center) and John W. Young (left), prime crew for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission, are shown inspecting the inside of Gemini spacecraft at the Mission Contro... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the controls in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Robinson is helping John Glenn mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission. Robinson was the payload commander of STS-95.        Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1456

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the co...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson sits at the controls in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Robin... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display. Glenn is at the space center to mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission.             Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1443

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Or...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and his wife, Annie, left, enter Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public displ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Mercury 7 memorial near Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Glenn and Carpenter launched from the pad on Atlas rockets inside Mercury capsules in 1962. The two astronauts, part of the original class of seven astronauts chosen by NASA, were taking part in events celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/ Cory Huston KSC-2012-1468

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses in front of the Mercury 7 memorial near Complex 14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Glenn and Carpenter launched from the pad on Atlas r... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1507

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Sh...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. T... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to guests about the Mercury Project's Atlas rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the space center in Florida, Cabana is helping John Glenn mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission.         Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1460

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Bob Cabana talks to guests about the Mercury Project's Atlas rocket in the Vehicle Assembly Building. At the space center in Florida, Cabana is helping John Gle... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honeycutt, left, and Bob Crippen, right, talk during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1413

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honey...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Former Kennedy Space Center directors Jay Honeycutt, left, and Bob Crippen, right, talk during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began wit... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. Looking on are U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, left, and event MC John Zarella. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1480

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana makes remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mi... More

Volunteers from the Air National Guard and Grissom Air Force Base join together in patrolling an eight-mile dike for leaks, after a recent flood

Volunteers from the Air National Guard and Grissom Air Force Base join...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Fort Wayne State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT David Craft Release Status: Released to Publi... More

STAFF SGT. Lance Dahz, KC-135 tail boom operator, 434th Air Refueling Wing, AFRES, Grissom AFB, Indiana, guides a C-5 "Galaxy" in for refueling as both aircraft support the operation

STAFF SGT. Lance Dahz, KC-135 tail boom operator, 434th Air Refueling ...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: RESTORE HOPE Base: Moron Country: Spain (ESP) Scene Camera Operator: SRA Janel Schroeder Release Status: Released to Public ... More

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Tumdaga (front), 434th Security Forces Squadron (SFS), Grissom Air Force Base (AFB), Indiana (IN), dons his chemical mask prior to engaging targets down range during the combat rifle course competition portion of the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition at McChord AFB, Washington (WA)

US Air Force (USAF) Technical Sergeant (TSGT) Tumdaga (front), 434th S...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Michael Featherston, USAF Rele... More

An Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), 72nd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), 434th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB), Indiana (IN), KC-135R aerial refuels a US Air Force (USAF) 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma (OK), C-5B Galaxy cargo aircraft during the aerial refueling competition portion of the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition at McChord AFB, Washington (WA)

An Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), 72nd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS)...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Billy Johnson, USAF Release St... More

MSGT Pat Devine of the 434th AGS receives a shot by TSGT Lynn Marie Poland of the 434th Medical Squadron. Devine is one of several hundred reservists (not shown) at Grissom ARB, Indiana, called to active duty in support of NATO Operation Allied Force

MSGT Pat Devine of the 434th AGS receives a shot by TSGT Lynn Marie Po...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Subject Operation/Series: ALLIED FORCEC Base: Grissom Air Reserve Base State: Indiana (IN) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operat... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In the foreground is what remains of historic Launch Pad 34 in the distance behind it is Space Launch Complex 37 whence NASA's Orion spacecraft made its first flight test.     On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the Pad 34 during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  To learn more about Orion, visit http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1180

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Can...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In the foreground is what remains of historic Launch Pad 34 in the distance behind it is Space Launch C... More

U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Russell, 434th Mission Support

U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Russell, 434th Mission Support

U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Russell, 434th Mission Support Group commander, speaks during a change of command ceremony at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind., June 4, 2017. During the ceremony, Maj. Timothy Kerrigan t... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

The first sections of an iconic World War II-era B-17

The first sections of an iconic World War II-era B-17

The first sections of an iconic World War II-era B-17 “Flying Fortress” bomber arrived at the Museum of Aviation at Robins on Aug. 20. The aircraft which had previously been on outdoor public display at Grissom... More

Photograph of Virgil L. Grissom Preparing for Centrifuge Tests

Photograph of Virgil L. Grissom Preparing for Centrifuge Tests

Original caption: Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, 35, prepares for centrifuge tests at the U.S. Navy's center at Johnsville, Pennsylvania during April of this year. These tests were conducted to determine the rea... More

Astronaut Virgil Grissom standing beside F-102 on the flight line

Astronaut Virgil Grissom standing beside F-102 on the flight line

B60-00708 (1960) --- Astronaut Virgil I (Gus) Grissom pictured standing beside a F-102 on the flight line. Photo credit: NASA

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, GUS, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, GUS, NASA Mercury project, NASA Gemini program

S61-02889 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom approaches his Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) launch vehicle to begin his mission. To the left of the view is an emergency shower stall, to the right is the ele... More

Astronauts Grissom and Glenn hold discussion in Mercury Control Center

Astronauts Grissom and Glenn hold discussion in Mercury Control Center

S64-10761 (1962) --- Astronauts Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom (left) and John H. Glenn Jr. hold a discussion in the Mercury Control Center during Mercury-Atlas 6 preflight activity. Glenn is the MA-6 pilot. Grissom w... More

WATER EGRESS -  ASTRONAUT JOHN W. YOUNG - TRAINING

WATER EGRESS - ASTRONAUT JOHN W. YOUNG - TRAINING

S65-14454 (23 Feb. 1965) --- A technician adjusts the suit of astronaut Virgil I. Grissom during water egress training operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Astronaut John W. Young (standing) observes. Grissom and ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn listens to remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1481

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn listens to remark...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn listens to remarks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Fe... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn, left, prepares to ride in the Corvette parade following the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1502

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn, left, prepares t...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn, left, prepares to ride in the Corvette parade following the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter sit in front of the plot board from the Mercury control center on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The astronauts, part of the original class of seven astronauts chosen by NASA, were taking part in a question-and-answer session with the media as part of events celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1442

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --Mercury astronauts John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter sit in front of the plot board from the Mercury control center on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The astrona... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1511

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962.... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ed Mango, program manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, talks with astronaut John Glenn, center and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden before a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1417

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ed Mango, program manager of NASA's Commercial ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Ed Mango, program manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, left, talks with astronaut John Glenn, center and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden before a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrati... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, right, talks to guests in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display during a 50th anniversary celebration of the first orbital flight of an American. The astronaut who made that first flight, John Glenn, is at the space center to commemorate that achievement. Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. He later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission. Also in the photo are Glenn's wife, Annie, NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson, and Bob Sieck, a former shuttle launch director. Robinson was the payload commander of STS-95.      Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1450

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana,...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, right, talks to guests in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1 where space shuttle Discovery is being prepared for public display during a 5... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Cal Fowler, Launch test director during Mercury, speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1485

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Cal Fowler, Launch test director during Mercur...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Cal Fowler, Launch test director during Mercury, speaks during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses for a photo in front of the Project Mercury monument at Launch Complex-14 LC-14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During events at the Cape and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Glenn is marking the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962.     Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1469

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses for a photo...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses for a photo in front of the Project Mercury monument at Launch Complex-14 LC-14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During events at the Ca... More

Artwork: "EC-135, Grissom AFB, IN" Artist: Bill Miller, USAF Art Collection

Artwork: "EC-135, Grissom AFB, IN" Artist: Bill Miller, USAF Art Colle...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Country: Unknown Scene Camera Operator: Unknown Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

A US Air Force (USAF) 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), Altus Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma (OK), C-5B Galaxy cargo aircraft remains on station after breaking away from an Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), 72nd Air Refueling Squadron (ARS), 434th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB), Indiana (IN), KC-135R at the end of an aerial refueling mission during the aerial refueling competition portion of the USAF Air Mobility Command (AMC) sponsored Rodeo 98 airlift competition at McChord AFB, Washington (WA)

A US Air Force (USAF) 97th Air Mobility Wing (AMW), Altus Air Force Ba...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Camera Operator: TSGT Billy Johnson, USAF Release St... More

Technical Sergeant Trevor Grissom, USAF, 93rd Aircraft Generation Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, gives the "thumbs up" to the pilot of a E-8C JSTARS during engine run up. The aircraft and personnel deployed in support of Operation ENDURING EDOM. "The E-8C Joint STARS is an airborne battle management and command and control (C2) platform that conducts ground surveillance to develop an understanding of the enemy situation and to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. These functions support the primary mission of Joint STARS to provide dedicated support of ground and air theater commanders." Operation ENDURING...

Technical Sergeant Trevor Grissom, USAF, 93rd Aircraft Generation Squa...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: [Complete] Scene Caption: Technical Sergeant Trevor Grissom, USAF, 93rd Aircraft Generation Squadron, Robins AFB, Georgia, gives the "thumbs up" to the pi... More

Detachment One, Communication Company, Combat Logistics

Detachment One, Communication Company, Combat Logistics

Detachment One, Communication Company, Combat Logistics Regiment 45, 4th Marine Logistics Group at Grissom Air Reserve Base, Ind., needs donations for its annual Toys for Tots campaign no later than Dec. 15, 20... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

B59-00587 (1959) --- Astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom is pictured leaving a U.S. Navy installation and removing his helmet. Photo credit: NASA b59-00587

B59-00587 (1959) --- Astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom is pictured leavin...

B59-00587 (1959) --- Astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom is pictured leaving a U.S. Navy installation and removing his helmet. Photo credit: NASA

ASTRONAUT VIRGIL I. GRISSOM - SUIT

ASTRONAUT VIRGIL I. GRISSOM - SUIT

S64-36909 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) spaceflight, wearing Mercury pressure suit, poses for picture during training activities at the Florida Space Cente... More

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, GUS - PRESS CONFERENCE

ASTRONAUT GRISSOM, GUS - PRESS CONFERENCE

S61-03676 (23 July 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom speaks at a press conference on July 23, 1961 held at the Starlight motel. Behind him is a large representation of the NASA logo. Photo credit: NASA

Astronaut Virgil Grissom and family at Patrick AFB airport

Astronaut Virgil Grissom and family at Patrick AFB airport

S61-03687 (21 July 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and his family are shown at the airport at Patrick Air Force Base facing a crowd of news media representatives. Grissom is speaking into microphone... More

Astronaut Grissom - Cabin - "Liberty Bell 7" - Capsule

Astronaut Grissom - Cabin - "Liberty Bell 7" - Capsule

S64-10806 (21 July 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, pilot of the Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) spaceflight, in his Mercury "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft is checking his flight plan during prelaunch activi... More

GRISSOM - MR-4 - Press Conf - MSC

GRISSOM - MR-4 - Press Conf - MSC

S61-03664 (23 July 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom's wife and son watch from the audience as a press conference is held on July 23, 1961 at the Starlight motel. Photo credit: NASA

Portrait - Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom

Portrait - Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom

S64-32343 (10 Sept. 1964) --- Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Editor's Note: Grissom, one of the Original Seven or Mercury astronauts, lost his life in the Apollo 204 fire at Cape Kennedy on Jan. 27, 1967, along... More

Official Portrait - Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom

Official Portrait - Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom

S64-32110 (1964) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The pair participated in 50th anniversary events at the launch site of Glenn's first orbital flight aboard NASA's Friendship 7 capsule, which launched Feb. 20, 1962, aboard an Atlas rocket. At right, is Jack King, who was chief of Kennedy's Public Information Office during Project Mercury.    Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1477

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scot...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --John Zarella leads a standing ovation during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20, 1962. The event was conducted in the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida a few miles from the launch pad where Glenn and Scott Carpenter took flight in Mercury spacecraft.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1514

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --John Zarella leads a standing ovation during th...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --John Zarella leads a standing ovation during the "On Shoulders of Giants" program celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with John Glenn's MA-6 mission on Feb. 20,... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, standing, speaks during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.  Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1418

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, stand...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, standing, speaks during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. The pair participated in 50th anniversary events at the launch site of Glenn's first orbital flight aboard NASA's Friendship 7 capsule, which launched Feb. 20, 1962, aboard an Atlas rocket.               Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Photo credit: Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-1472

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scot...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronauts, John Glenn, left, and Scott Carpenter, talk to Mercury Project workers and other guests in the Astronaut Encounter Theater at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana sit in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1. Glenn is at the space center to mark the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the NASA Mercury Project's Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn later returned to space in October 1998 as a payload specialist aboard Discovery's STS-95 mission.       Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975. Shuttle Discovery currently is being prepared for display at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va. Photo credit: Cory Huston KSC-2012-1454

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and NASA Kennedy Space Center Direc...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- John Glenn and NASA Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana sit in the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in Orbiter Processing Facility-1 OPF-1. Glenn is at the space center to mar... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Gunther Wendt takes a turn at the podium after viewing the recovered Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule, seen in the background.  At right is Curt Newport who led the expedition to find and retrieve the capsule.  The expedition was sponsored by the Discovery Channel.   Wendt worked on the Liberty Bell 7 before its launch July 21, 1961. After its successful 16-minute suborbital flight, the Liberty Bell 7, with astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom aboard, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.  A prematurely jettisoned hatch caused the capsule to flood and a Marine rescue helicopter was unable to lift it.  It quickly sank to a three-mile depth.  Grissom was rescued but his spacecraft remained lost on the ocean floor, until now. An underwater salvage expert, Newport located the capsule through modern technology, and after one abortive attempt, successfully raised it and brought it to Port Canaveral. The recovery of Liberty Bell 7 fulfilled a 14-year dream for the expedition leader.  The capsule is being moved to the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas,  where it will be restored for eventual public display. Newport has also been involved in salvage operations of the Space Shuttle Challenger and TWA Flight 800 that crashed off the coast of Long Island, N.Y KSC-99pp1031

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Gunther Wendt takes a turn at the podium...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Gunther Wendt takes a turn at the podium after viewing the recovered Liberty Bell 7 Project Mercury capsule, seen in the background. At right is Curt Newport who led the expeditio... More

US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle fighter Pilots from the 27th Fighter Squadron (FS) at Langley Air Force Base (AFB), Virginia (VA), returning from a mandatory evacuation to Grissom Air Reserve Base (ARB), Indiana (IN). Langley evacuated all flyable aircraft parked on their runway before Hurricane Isabel made landfall

US Air Force (USAF) F-15C Eagle fighter Pilots from the 27th Fighter S...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Langley Air Force Base State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC Scene Camera Operator: SSGT D... More

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. --   Former astronaut John Young addresses guests and attendees at a ceremony at the KSC Visitor Complex held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White II and Roger B. Chaffee.  Members of their families, along with Associate Administrator for Space Operations William Gerstenmaier, President of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation Stephen Feldman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Astronauts Memorial Foundation William Potter and former astronaut John Young, attended the ceremony.  Behind the stage is the Space Mirror Memorial, designated as a national memorial by Congress and President George Bush in 1991 to honor fallen astronauts.  Their names are emblazoned on the monument’s 42-1/2-foot-high by 50-foot-wide black granite surface as if to be projected into the heavens.  Photo credit:NASA/George Shelton KSC-07pd0183

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut John Young addresses ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut John Young addresses guests and attendees at a ceremony at the KSC Visitor Complex held in remembrance of the astronauts lost in the Apollo 1 fire: Virgil "Gus" ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew module transportation fixture and secured on a flatbed truck nears the entrance gate to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background is a full-scale mockup of the Mercury Redstone rocket that boosted NASA astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom on their 1961 sub-orbital missions that began America's human spaceflight program. Orion made the overland trip from Naval Base San Diego in California. Orion was recovered from the Pacific Ocean after completing a two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission Dec. 5 to test systems critical to crew safety, including the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program led the recovery, offload and transportation efforts. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis KSC-2014-4838

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew module transportation fixture and secured on a flatbed truck nears the entrance gate to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew module transportation fixture and secured on a flatbed truck nears the entrance gate to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background is a full-scale mockup of the Mercury Redstone rocket that boosted NASA astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom on their 1961 sub-orbital missions that began America's human spaceflight program.  Orion made the overland trip from Naval Base San Diego in California. Orion was recovered from the Pacific Ocean after completing a two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission Dec. 5 to test systems critical to crew safety, including the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The Ground Systems Development and Operations Program led the recovery, offload and transportation efforts. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/orion. Photo credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis KSC-2014-4835

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA's Orion crew module, enclosed in its crew module transportation fixture and secured on a flatbed truck nears the entrance gate to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the background ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun beams through what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.      On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1186

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun beams through what remains of the gantr...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun beams through what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight te... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sunrise at Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida illuminates what remains of the pad's historic gantry.     On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1172

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sunrise at Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sunrise at Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida illuminates what remains of the pad's historic gantry. On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In the foreground is what remains of historic Launch Pad 34 in the distance behind it is Space Launch Complex 37 whence NASA's Orion spacecraft made its first flight test.    On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the Pad 34 during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  To learn more about Orion, visit http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/orion/. Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1181

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Can...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The past intersects with the future on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. In the foreground is what remains of historic Launch Pad 34 in the distance behind it is Space Launch C... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A plaque affixed to what remains of the historic gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida pays tribute to those who died there in the pursuit of exploration and discovery.    On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1175

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A plaque affixed to what remains of the histori...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – A plaque affixed to what remains of the historic gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida pays tribute to those who died there in the pursuit of exploration ... More

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun comes up behind what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.     On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight test, taking the lives of the Apollo 1 crew, NASA astronauts Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee. To learn more about Apollo 1 and the crew, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo1.html.  Photo credit: NASA/Ben Smegelsky KSC-2015-1183

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun comes up behind what remains of the gan...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The sun comes up behind what remains of the gantry on Launch Pad 34 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On this day in 1967, a fire erupted on the pad during a preflight t... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 143, Peru, Miami County, IN

Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Grissom Air Force Base, Building No. 747, Peru, Miami County, IN

Significance: Building 747 was used by the United States Air Force to support three major Cold War missions: the Strategic Air Command (SAC) ground alert, to act as a deterrent to Soviet attack; the Post Attack... More

Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing

Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing

Original caption: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom, 35, is prepared for testing in the U.S. Navy centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania. Grissom is one of three NAA astr... More

GRISSOM, GUS - PRESSURE SUIT, NASA Mercury project

GRISSOM, GUS - PRESSURE SUIT, NASA Mercury project

S61-01490 (4 April 1961) --- Astronaut Virgil Grissom photographed in the new Mercury spacesuit, holding his helmet. Photo credit: NASA

Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing in the Centrifuge

Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing in the...

Original caption: Being readied for testing in the U.S. Navy's centrifuge at Johnsville, Pennsylvania is Virgil I. Grissom, 35, one of three astronauts chosen for the first manned suborbital flight of Project M... More

Astronaut Grissom talks to backup John Glenn prior to insertion

Astronaut Grissom talks to backup John Glenn prior to insertion

S61-02882 (1961) --- Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, suited up and ready to climb into Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft, talks with backup pilot John H. Glenn prior to insertion. The Mercury-Redstone 4 (MR-4) missi... More

Attempted Recovery of Mercury spacecraft at end of MR-4 mission

Attempted Recovery of Mercury spacecraft at end of MR-4 mission

S61-02824 (21 July 1961) --- A U.S. Marine Corps helicopter attempts an unsuccessful recovery of the Mercury-Redstone 4 "Liberty Bell 7" spacecraft. The spacecraft hatch opened prematurely, and astronaut Virgil... More

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