Offered is a rare Gus Grissom signed and inscribed, color 8 x 10-inch head and shoulder photograph of the Apollo 1 astronaut. Grissom has inscribed “Regards to Mrs. Orth, Gus Grissom” in black pen on the left margin of the photograph. Virgil “Gus” Grissom was one of the seven original NASA Project Mercury astronauts, and the first of the Mercury Seven to die. He was also a Project Gemini and an Apollo program astronaut. Grissom was the second American to fly in space, and the first member of the NASA Astronaut Corps to fly in space twice. In addition, Grissom was a World War II and Korean War veteran, U.S. Air Force test pilot, and a mechanical engineer. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with an oak leaf cluster, a two-time recipient of the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, and, posthumously, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Grissom, the commander of AS-204 (Apollo 1), along with his fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee, died on January 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Kennedy, Florida. This item comes with a COA from JSA.

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