Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John, Alan and their father: Jeff. There was also a character known as Brains. They were named after the Mercury Programme astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.
NASA's seven original astronauts were: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton. Look under "What are the names of all the Astronauts" for a more complete list.
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Virgil Ivan (Gus) Grissom, John Herschel Glenn Jr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Walter Marty (Wally) Schirra Jr. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., Donald Kent (Deke) Slayton
Of the seven military test pilots selected as astronauts selected for Project Mercury, only six actually flew Mercury missions: Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra and Cooper. Slayton was medically grounded in 1962 and replaced by Carpenter, but eventually flew on the last pre-Shuttle mission, the Apollo-Soyuz Tesp Project, in 1975.
Francis R. Scobee; pilot Michael J. Smith; mission specialists Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka, and Judith A. Resnik; and payload specialists Gregory B. Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe. You can read all about the Challenger disaster, and find links to the biographies of the seven astronauts at the link to your right.
Scott, Virgil, Gordon, John, Alan and their father: Jeff. There was also a character known as Brains. They were named after the Mercury Programme astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Alan Shepard, Gordon Cooper and John Glenn.
There were seven "first" American astronauts: John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Donald "Deke" Slayton, Gordon Cooper, and Wally Schirra.
Scott Carpenter Gordon Cooper John H. Glenn Jr Virgil I (Gus) Grissom Walter M. Schirra Alan B. Sheppard Donald K. Slayton
NASA's seven original astronauts were: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton. Look under "What are the names of all the Astronauts" for a more complete list.
The first seven American astronauts were the Mercury program astronauts: John Glenn Jr.; Virgil "Gus" Grissom; Donald "Deke" Slayton; Alan Shepard, Jr.; M. Scott Carpenter; Wally Schirra; L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Virgil Ivan (Gus) Grissom, John Herschel Glenn Jr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Walter Marty (Wally) Schirra Jr. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., Donald Kent (Deke) Slayton
The first American astronauts were known as the Mercury Seven and their names are/were: John Glenn II, L. Gordon Cooper II, M. Scott Carpenter, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Walter "Wally" Schirra II, Alan Shepard II, and Donald "Deke" Slayton.
The name of the first Astronauts in space were Alan . B. shepherd. Virgil. I. Grissom. , John Glenn, Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Walter schirra, Henry Cooper , Charles Conrad.
Virgil 'Gus' Grissom was born on April 3, 1926.
Virgil I. Grissom High School was created in 1969.
A Russian cosmonaut was the very first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton are known as the seven original American astronauts. Alan Shepard was the first of them in space and John Glenn was the first to orbit the Earth.
virgil grissom lived in a small town called logansport in indiana.Basiclly,no.