![]() ![]() ![]() His NASA colleagues, by and large, believed him. Grissom himself insisted he hadn’t accidentally triggered the explosive bolts designed to open the hatch during his ocean recovery. space mission, inadvertently “blow” the escape hatch prematurely on his Liberty Bell 7 capsule, causing it to fill with water and sink in the Atlantic? In fact, did Grissom blow the hatch? Or was some technical glitch to blame? How did Mercury astronaut Gus Grissom, after a near-perfect flight on just the second U.S. It’s one of the great mysteries of the early space age. ![]()
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