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Post by ADMIN on Jul 21, 2021 8:27:45 GMT -5
LinksWeds. | July 21, 2021Today's links from JFK Boards are here:The Doctors Change of Hand | The Baltimore Sun Marguerite Oswald's 1956-1962 IRS returns Gus Grissom: 2nd American in Space Sixty Years On | July 21, 1961
"Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, became the second American astronaut to go into space. Grissom lifted off at 7:20 am, reached an altitude of 118 miles without attaining orbit, then descended in his capsule by parachute, with splashdown at 7:36. The hatch opened prematurely, and Grissom escaped and swam to safety as the capsule filled with water. Although a helicopter managed to secure the capsule and attempted to lift it, weight of the water added 4,000 pounds to the load.
The $5,000,000 spacecraft was cut loose and sank to the bottom of the ocean, and would not be found until May 1999.
Grissom almost drowned when water filled his suit, and a 10-foot long shark was observed in the water soon after his rescue. Grissom would die in 1967, unable to escape the capsule of Apollo 1 when it caught fire. An unidentified NASA official commented, "We've got only one Gus, but we've got plenty of space capsules." [wiki]
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