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Rare Check, as Capt. Virgil I Grissom, 6 x 2.75, filled out and hand and signed “Virgil I. Grissom,” payable to (Stamped) LAFB Officers Open Mess. of America for $32.50 Jan 10,1961.This check was signed 9 months after captain Grissom was selected as one of the 7 mercury astronauts. He then moved to the Langley Air Force Base for training .He was aboard the Liberty Bell 7 when it launched on July 21, 1961, making him the second American after Alan B. Shepard to travel into space. NASA chose Grissom to lead the first two-man space flight with John W. Young on Gemini III on March 23, 1965, and he demonstrated such superb piloting and leadership skills that NASA chose him as commander of the Apollo I mission in 1967. It was while preparing for that mission that Grissom, age 40, and two fellow astronauts died in a fire inside the Apollo capsule.
Virgil Grissom Signed Check as Captain
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