Betty Lavonne Grissom, the widow of astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom who successfully sued a NASA contractor after his death in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91.

Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launchpad fire, has died. She was 91.

Fifty years ago Friday, Indiana native Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White were killed when their command module burst into flames during a flight simulation at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Key dates in the life of Gus Grissom 1959: Gus Grissom, a native of Mitchell, Ind., and a Purdue graduate, is selected as one of the Mercury 7, America's first astronauts.

NASA on Tuesday memorialized the Apollo 1 crew — Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee — by dedicating the hills surrounding the Spirit rover's landing site to the astronauts. The crew of ...

Thirty-five years after Mitchell native Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom died in a fire inside the Apollo I spacecraft, his memory still lives in Lawrence County.Grissom died January 27, 1967, at the age ...

Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died.

Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91. Mark ...

He says she will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery, where his father is interred. Betty and Gus Grissom met in high school in Mitchell, Indiana, and married in 1945.

Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91.