Gus Grissom Boyhood Home

The Gus Grissom Boyhood Home is a museum honoring how Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom was able to come from humble beginnings in the small Southern Indiana town of Mitchell, Grissom to become one of the prolific national heroes of his time -- one of the country's original seven astronauts, the second American in space, the first American in space twice, the first man to maneuver a spacecraft and a commanding member of the first Apollo crew with its sights on the moon.

Tragically, Grissom and fellow astronauts Roger Chaffee and Edward White were killed in an accidental fire during an Apollo 1 test on January 27, 1967