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Tuesday! Mar 25 2003 // 5:31 pm //

he did have The Right Stuff, after all

Gus Grissom Didn’t Sink Liberty Bell 7, at space.com

“To detonate the ordnance, either Grissom would have to firmly bang his wrist on a plunger inside the capsule, or a diver greeting the spacecraft in the water could move a small panel on the outside and pull on a T-shaped handle.

Later experience would show that if a Mercury astronaut were to detonate the hatch from the inside, the amount of force necessary to hit and activate the plunger would leave a nasty bruise, which Grissom didn’t have.”