Gus Grissom

Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom went on to be a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA.

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Who was born first?

• Gus Grissom and Konstantin Feoktistov were born the same year
• Gus Grissom and Lev Dyomin were born the same year
• Gus Grissom and Karl Gordon Henize were born the same year
• Gus Grissom was born 1 year before Vladimir Komarov
• Gus Grissom was born 1 year after Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev

Timeline

1. Pavel Ivanovich BelyayevJune 26, 1925 – January 10, 1970
2. Gus Grissom (this page)April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967
3. Karl Gordon HenizeOctober 17, 1926 – October 5, 1993
4. Konstantin FeoktistovFebruary 7, 1926 – November 21, 2009
5. Lev DyominJanuary 11, 1926 – December 18, 1998
6. Vladimir KomarovMarch 16, 1927 – April 24, 1967

Related

• Neil ArmstrongAugust 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012
• Yuri GagarinMarch 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968
• Valentina TereshkovaMarch 6, 1937 – present
• Buzz AldrinJanuary 20, 1930 – present
• Alexey LeonovMay 30, 1934 – October 11, 2019
• Michael CollinsOctober 31, 1930 – April 28, 2021
• Sally RideMay 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012
• John GlennJuly 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016