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![]() Rusty wrote: Forty years ago today, March 23, 1965, Gus Grissom and John Young were launched into orbit aboard the Molly Brown (Gemini 3). Gus performed the first orbital maneuvers with a manned spacecraft and John offered Gus a corned beef sandwich. I remember reading somewhere that the sandwich (with a bite out of it) was preserved in plexiglas. Rusty |
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