Guss Grissom, an American Hero

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  • Gus Grissom mission patches. Photos courtesy of Don Thompson.
    Gus Grissom mission patches. Photos courtesy of Don Thompson.
  • Guss Grissom, an American Hero
    Guss Grissom, an American Hero
  • Guss Grissom, an American Hero
    Guss Grissom, an American Hero
    I did not have the honor to meet Virgil “Gus” Grissom, but my Dad (Dick Thompson) did, and Grissom became a hero to my famil y. Chosen by NASA as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, Grissom and all these first astronauts had “the right stuff ”, real-life Top Guns, hot shot test pilots determined to be the first American to fly in space. The seven original American astr...

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