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'''Virgil Ivan Grissom''', widely noted as '''Gus Grissom''' (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was one of the original NASA [[Project Mercury]] astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot. He was the second American to fly in space and the first person to fly in space twice. Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts [[Ed White]] and [[Roger Chaffee]] during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the [[Kennedy Space Center]]. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

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