🪂 On July 21, 1961, NASA astronaut Gus Grissom completed the second successful human spaceflight mission for the United States of America. Discover more epic space stories 👉 https://trib.al/6yWQ32C His suborbital flight in the Liberty Bell 7 capsule lasted 15 minutes and 30 seconds and reached an altitude of 103 nautical miles. Everything went according to plan until just after Grissom splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. While Grissom was waiting on the recovery crew to come get him, the hatc

Today, we honor astronaut Gus Grissom on what would have been his 99th birthday. The Cosmosphere is proud to house the Mercury space capsule in which he flew in 1961, Liberty Bell 7. This capsule spent 38 years at the bottom of the ocean before it was preserved and restored by SpaceWorks, a division of the Cosmosphere which specializes in restoration and fabrication. For more information about SpaceWorks, visit cosmo.org/spaceworks. #space #nasa #gusgrissom #mercurycapsule #mercuryprogram #mercu