If One Picture Screams Ed White It’s This One. Somewhere In The 1960′s.

Gus Grissom seen through the window of the spacecraft during Apollo 1 tests, October 1966.

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“Even among the astronauts, Ed White had always stood out; a strapping six-footer who had barely missed becoming an Olympic hurdler, he was known as one of the finest physical specimens in the Astronaut Office. And perhaps more than any astronaut except John Glenn, White subscribed to their ail-American image. In 1965, after he became the first American to walk in space, White easily wore the mantle of a national hero. There appeared to be no limit to how far he might go.” 

Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon

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The crew of Apollo 11 leave the Mobile Quarantine Facility and arrive at the Lunar Receiving Lab July 27, 1969 

Happy late bday @gusgrissom!! Here’s, well, Gus Grissom!

“He was kind of the perfect dad. He was the kind of person who could do anything if he went after it, and he would make you feel like that, too.”

Ed White with his son, Eddie, at a post-Gemini IV visit to Brooks AFB, June 1965

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Gus inspecting a Mercury capsule, photographed by Bill Taub, circa 1961