Interesting Fact

 I wanted to find out more about Gus Grissom, but ended up looking more into the Gemini project instead. The Gemini program fell between the Mercury and Apollo programs in 1965 and 1966, and was the gateway into space travel. NASA needed to determine if astronauts could survive in space for a several days at a time, and the Gemini missions enabled NASA to do so. The Gemini capsules were also larger than the previous Mercury program, which allowed more than one astronaut to fly into space. Each of the Gemini missions served a different purpose, from testing a new vehicle to being able to connect two aircrafts to orbiting in space for a few weeks at a time. All of these tests were important to determine if astronauts could go to the moon.