Posts tagged Apollo Space Program

August 3, 2009

Astronauts’ Cradle

Neil Armstrong’s history-making voyage 250,000 miles from home began two decades earlier with the 220-mile trip from Wapakoneta, Ohio to West Lafayette.

Gus Grissom

Virgil “Gus” Grissom from Mitchell, Indiana graduated from Purdue University, joined the Air Force, and went on to become one of the nation’s seven original Mercury astronauts.