Project Mercury stamps, first day of issue, autographed by Gus Grissom 1962.

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Project Mercury stamps, first day of issue, autographed by Gus Grissom 1962.

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This collection, contained in a 5 x 3 inch folder, has a first-day cover autographed by Gus Grissom that features the US 4-cent Mercury commemorative postage stamp issued on February 20, 1962. This is postmarked Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 20, 1962, first day of issue. The stamp issue commemorates the first American manned spacecraft suborbital flights in May and July 1961. As one of the seven Mercury astronauts, Grissom was the backup for Alan Shepard in the first fifteen minute flight in May and was the astronaut of the second fifteen minute flight in the Liberty Bell 7, in July.

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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

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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...

Project Mercury (U.S.)

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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the U.S. Air Force by the newly created civilian space agency NASA, it conducted twenty unmanned developmental flights (some using animals), and six successful flights by astronauts. The astronauts were collectively known as the "Mercury...