article_snippet: Gus' Grissom, command pilot, and John W. Young, pilot, on three orbits of Earth.
article_snippet: ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom asked astronaut John Young when ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom produced the previously hidden item, in a bizarre exchange you can read in Nasa’s transcript of the mission.
article_snippet: I brought it with ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom.
article_snippet: I’m going to stick It in my pocket,’ said ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom.
article_snippet: Not a very good one,’ said ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom.
article_snippet: Pictured here in they spacesuits are Virgil 'Gus' Grissom (left) and John W. Young, seen with the portable suit air conditioners connected and they helmets on.
article_snippet: astronaut John Young would go on to be one of Nasa's most decorated astronauts, but ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom died in the Apollo 1 launchpad fire on 27 January 1967 .
article_snippet: astronaut John Young is walking in front with ’ co-astronaut Gus Grissom behind, as they head for the elevator at Launch Pad 19 for they three-orbit flight .
article_snippet: The spacecraft was incredibly cramped, seen in a simulator on the right (astronaut John Young is left, ’
article_snippet: co-astronaut Gus Grissom right), and thus the movements and actions of the astronauts inside were severely restricted .
article_snippet: Sadly, Gus Grissom’s next mission was Apollo 1, designed to be a low-Earth orbit test of the Apollo Command and Service Module.
article_snippet: In a routine test on 27 January 1967, the capsule caught fire, killing all three crew members - Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee - inside the Apollo Command and Service Module.