Virgil "Gus" Grissom grew up in Mitchell, Indiana and went on to become one NASA's first astronauts. Indiana astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom, who grew up in tiny Mitchell, Indiana, and went on to ...

Selected as one of NASA's original Seven Mercury Astronauts, Gus Grissom would go on to become the first man to fly in space twice and later give his life to the NASA space program. This book unearths ...

The first piloted Apollo flight – called Apollo 204, though it would later be known as Apollo 1 – was intended for tests in Earth orbit, part of the eventual path to later Apollo missions going to the ...