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Article: THE OTHER SPACE AGE DISASTER GUS GRISSOM, ED WHITE AND ROGER CHAFFEE DIED WHEN FIRE ERUPTED DURING A TEST
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1987
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PHOTO GUS GRISSOM
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Gus Grissom was angry. Nothing seemed to be going right with preparations for the first Apollo manned mission which he was to command.
He told an interviewer that he had misgivings, that he felt the mission had "a pretty slim chance" of going its full 14 days in Earth orbit. One morning, after a particularly bad performance by the training simulator here, he hung a lemon on it.
The picture had seemed so rosy in late 1966 as the two-man Gemini program came to an end after dispatching 20 men into orbit in 20 months. Two unmanned Apollo spacecraft had been tested in space, hurled there by the powerful ...