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gleopold
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posted 10-05-2012 12:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for gleopold   Click Here to Email gleopold     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In Loudon Wainwright's March 3, 1961, profile of Gus Grissom in LIFE magazine (p. 29), the author quotes Gus Grissom as referring to a test flight (presumably at Wright-Patt) that "a lot of people thought... was downright suicidal."

Is anyone familiar with the details of this test mission?

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