In 1940, Germany invaded Norway and Denmark. Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels blamed Britain for the invasion, ...

The Fall of Baghdad occurred on April 9, 2003, when US forces captured Iraq’s capital, marking a significant turning point in ...

That compactness earned it the moniker Gusmobile, after Gemini 3 commander Virgil “Gus” Grissom, whose diminutive 5-foot 7-inch (1.7 m) stature made him the only astronaut who could fit in the ...

HOUSTON — On March 23, 1965, Gemini III lifted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and John Young on America’s first two-person spaceflight.

It provides an in-depth look at the lives and families of the three Apollo 1 astronauts — Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Edward White — who were killed when a fire swept through ...

How did the space sandwich storm unfold? On March 23, 1965, Young and Virgil “Gus” Grissom became the first Americans to fly together in space when they completed NASA’s Gemini 3 mission ...

They called it the Gusmobile. That's "Gus" as in Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom. "Gus really had a big hand in everything, from the way the cockpit was laid out to what instruments went where," says John ...

Astronaut John Young likened it to sitting sideways in a phone booth. That compactness earned it the moniker Gusmobile, after Gemini 3 commander Virgil "Gus" Grissom, whose diminutive 5-foot 7-inch (1 ...