Gus Grissom collection [graphic], 1960-1967.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Gus Grissom collection [graphic], 1960-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191799957

The collection contains NASA photographs of Grissom and other astronauts from 1960-1967. The DVD is a compilation of three short film clips about Gemini Space Flights, Mariner IV, and the X-15 tests.

1 box of photographs, 2 boxes of 4 x 5 color acetate negatives, 1 videodisc.

Indiana Historical Society Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6959041

Indiana Historical Society Library

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

Project Apollo (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf1szt (corporateBody)

The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...

White, Edward Higgins, II, 1930-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv8ctx (person)

Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. After graduating from West Point in 1952 with a Bachelor of Science degree, White was sent to flight training, and assigned to the 22nd Fighter Day Squadron at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, where he flew the F-86 Sabre and F-100 Super Sabre fighters. In 1958, he enrolled i...

Grissom, Virgil I. (Virgil Ivan), 1926-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xg9qsf (person)

Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (b. April 3, 1926-d. Jan. 27, 1967) was born in Mitchell, Indiana. An Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, received his wings in March 1951. He flew 100 combat missions in Korea in F-86s with the 334th Fighter Interceptor Squadron and, upon returning to the United States in 1952, became a jet instructor at Bryan, Texas. In August 1955, he entered the Air Force Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, to study Aeronautical Engineering. He attended the T...

Chaffee, Roger B., 1935-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62g8bf8 (person)

Roger Chaffee was one of the three Apollo I astronauts killed in a fire on the launch pad, January 27, 1967. The other astronauts were Lt. Cols.Virgil (Gus) Grissom and Edward H. White II. From the description of Papers, records, photographs and artifacts 1935-1967. (Grand Rapids Public Library). WorldCat record id: 15212313 ...