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1 de jan. de 1974 · [The other two widows, for reasons unexplained, declined to join her in the action] Hampered by lack of funds and the hard reality that astronaut Grissom himself had participated in preparation of his ship at Rockwell, the lawyers were happy to settle for $350,000: after expenses, each attorney pocketed $75,000. Betty Grissom received $60,000.
- Betty Grissom, Henry Still
15 de out. de 2018 · Betty Lavonne Moore was born on Aug. 8, 1927, in Mitchell, Ind., to Claude and Pauline (Sutherlin) Moore. Her father worked at a cement plant. She grew up in Mitchell and met Grissom in high school.
11 de out. de 2018 · Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and two other astronauts died in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. She was 91.B
Here, LIFE.com recalls one of the worst disasters in NASA’s history—and its first public tragedy—when astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died in a fire inside their command module on a Cape Canaveral launchpad on Jan. 27, 1967. As TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger (the author of Apollo 13) once wrote, when commemorating the three ...
10 de out. de 2018 · Betty Lavonne Grissom, the widow of astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom who successfully sued a NASA contractor after his death in the 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, has died. Toggle navigation.
9 de out. de 2018 · Grissom and Betty had two sons: Scott, born on May 15, 1950, and Mark, born on Dec. 30, 1953. Gus was killed Jan. 27, 1967, during a pre-launch test at Cape Kennedy (Cape Canaveral), Florida.
