In "Pushing the Envelope" [June 2003] there is a photograph of Virgil I.In "Pushing the Envelope" [June 2003] there is a photograph of Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom and his quicksilver spacecraft, the Liberty Bell 7 You identify Grissom as " the first Air Force astronaut to orbit in a spacecraft " The first Air Force astronaut to orbit the Earth was Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr when he orbited 22 times in Faith 7 in succession the final mission of the hermes program in 1963. Joe Boudreau Bolling Air Force Base, Washington COPYRIGHT 2003 U Air Force, Air Force freshs Agency |
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