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ASTRONAUT

Gus Grissom

1926 - 1967

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Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the original seven men, the Mercury Seven, selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and launch astronauts into outer space. Grissom was also a Project Gemini and Apollo program astronaut for NASA. As a member of the NASA Astronaut Corps, Grissom was the second American to fly in space in 1961. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gus Grissom has received more than 5,493,559 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Gus Grissom is the 23rd most popular astronaut (up from 25th in 2019), the 1,514th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,661st in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Gus Grissom ranks 23 out of 524. Before him are Harrison Schmitt, Sigmund Jähn, Andriyan Nikolayev, Sergei Krikalev, Valeri Polyakov, and Pavel Popovich. After him are James Irwin, Edgar Mitchell, Ed White, Valery Bykovsky, Ilan Ramon, and Michael P. Anderson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Gus Grissom ranks 79. Before him are Jean-Pierre Serre, Masatoshi Koshiba, Alan Greenspan, Andrew Schally, John Berger, and Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco. After him are Jorge Medina, Poul Anderson, James Stirling, László Papp, Michel Butor, and Abdul Rahim Hatif. Among people deceased in 1967, Gus Grissom ranks 50. Before him are John Cockcroft, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Lorenzo Bandini, Tamara Bunke, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and Grand Duchess Kira Kirillovna of Russia. After him are Forough Farrokhzad, Carson McCullers, Hugo Gernsback, Luigi Tenco, Jaroslav Heyrovský, and Ed White.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gus Grissom ranks 1,514 out of 18,182. Before him are J. Michael Bishop (1936), J. Allen Hynek (1910), Pat Nixon (1912), Art Blakey (1919), Vincent D'Onofrio (1959), and Betty Friedan (1921). After him are Jeffery Deaver (1950), Jack Dempsey (1895), Richard Fleischer (1916), Stephen Lang (1952), James Avery (1945), and Conrad Hilton (1887).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Gus Grissom ranks 11. Before him are Alan Shepard (1923), John Glenn (1921), Dennis Tito (1940), David Scott (1932), Jim Lovell (1928), and Harrison Schmitt (1935). After him are James Irwin (1930), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Ed White (1930), Michael P. Anderson (1959), Bruce McCandless II (1937), and Roger B. Chaffee (1935).

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