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Virgil Grissom
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Virgil Grissom |
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Born on: |
3 Apr 1926 |
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Join NASA in: |
2 Apr 1959 |
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Current status: |
Died 27 Jan 1967 |
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Spaceflight |
Position |
Date |
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Mercury 4 |
Pilot |
21.07.1961 |
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Gemini 3 |
Cmdr |
23.03.1965 |
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Spaceflight experience: |
Grissom was one of the seven Mercury astronauts selected
by NASA in April 1959. He piloted the “Liberty Bell 7
spacecraft -- the second and final suborbital Mercury test
flight -- on July 21, 1961. This flight lasted 15 minutes
and 37 seconds, attained an altitude of 118 statute miles,
and traveled 302 miles downrange from the launch pad at
Cape Kennedy.
On March 23, 1965, he served as command pilot on the first
manned Gemini flight, A 3-orbit mission during which the
crew accomplished the first orbital trajectory
modifications and the first lifting reentry of a manned
spacecraft. Subsequent to this assignment, he served as
backup command pilot for Gemini 6.
Grissom was named to serve as command pilot for the AS-204
mission, the first 3-man Apollo flight
Lieutenant Colonel Grissom died on January 27, 1967, in
the Apollo spacecraft flash fire during a launch pad test
at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
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