Gus Grissom
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title:
Gus Grissom
text:
Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom was also a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, Grissom was the second American to fly in space in 1961. He was also the second American to fly
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American astronaut (1926–1967)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom
date created:
2002-02-23T18:21:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T20:17:35Z
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