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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.

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January 22, 2007

 

Sam Bass

While John Dillinger might be considered Indiana’s most notorious gangster, and the Reno gang of Seymour credited with having invented the train robbery, a different Hoosier miscreant may have left the largest footprint on American folklore. Before astronaut Virgil “Gus” Grissom put Mitchell on the map, the small town’s best-known native son was undoubtedly Sam Bass.

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April 18, 2005

 

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.

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