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Gus Grissom

BS mechanical engineering ’50
1926-1967
Missions: Mercury 4, Gemini 3, Apollo 1

A member of the Mercury Seven – the original seven astronauts selected in 1959 by NASA for the United States’ first attempt at manned spaceflight – Virgil “Gus” Grissom was a true aerospace pioneer.

He became the second American in space – and third person of any nationality, following Russian Yuri Gagarin and American Alan Shepard – by piloting the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft on a 15-minute suborbital flight in 1961. He also became the first astronaut to fly in space twice while serving as command pilot of Gemini 3 in 1967, the United States’ first two-person spaceflight.

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Grissom was assigned to serve as commander of the AS-204 (Apollo 1) mission.

However, on Jan. 27, 1967, Grissom and astronauts Roger Chaffee, a fellow Purdue alumnus, and Ed White died at Kennedy Space Center when a flash fire consumed their spacecr