The Real Right Stuff - Gus Grissom's Press Conference

On January 27, 1967, at Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 34, astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were trapped inside the Apollo 1 Command Module during a launch simulation. A stray spark from a frayed, silver plated wire ignited the cabin’s pure oxygen atmosphere. The fire spread with explosive intensity, fueled by over seventy feet of Velcro and flammable nylon netting. The internal pressure spiked so rapidly that the inward opening hatch became physically impossible to move, effec

APOLLO 1: KILLED TO PROTECT A LIE‼️ Gus Grissom—one of the original men meant to be “sent to the moon” was highly critical of NASA & the Space Program. He constantly pushed concerns up the chain of command, warning about major equipment failures & safety issues… But nothing was ever fixed because they already knew it’d be a waste of money. They weren’t actually going to the moon—and the astronauts had yet to be told the mission would be staged. Frustrated, Gus held an unauthorized press conferen

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Today, we honor astronaut Gus Grissom on what would have been his 99th birthday. The Cosmosphere is proud to house the Mercury space capsule in which he flew in 1961, Liberty Bell 7. This capsule spent 38 years at the bottom of the ocean before it was preserved and restored by SpaceWorks, a division of the Cosmosphere which specializes in restoration and fabrication. For more information about SpaceWorks, visit cosmo.org/spaceworks. #space #nasa #gusgrissom #mercurycapsule #mercuryprogram #mercu