After groundbreaking success with the Mercury and Gemini missions, NASA was rocked by the Apollo 1 disaster, in which all three crew members (Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee) were killed ...

Russell “Rusty” Schweickart was among the first astronauts in space and the first to pilot the lunar module during the Apollo 9 mission in March 1969.

Vaughn Grissom led Worcester with two hits and two RBI as the team fell to 41-36 on the season at PNC Field.

Preserved lemon adds its salty, fermented punch to a seven-ingredient pasta.

Object Details author Burgess, Colin 1947-,- Subject Grissom, Virgil I Liberty Bell 7 (Spacecraft) Project Mercury (U.S.) Contents Creating a Mercury capsule -- An astronaut named Gus -- Preparing for ...

From 1958 to 1963 Project Mercury included numerous uncrewed missions and six crewed flights in which the Mercury astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Jr.; Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom; John Herschel Glenn, Jr.; ...

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.