Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into his 'Liberty Bell 7' spacecraft on July 21, 1961.

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Astronaut Gus Grissom climbs into his 'Liberty Bell 7' spacecraft on July 21, 1961. The Mercury-Redstone 4 rocket successfully launched the Liberty Bell 7 at 7:20 that morning. This was the second in a series of successful manned suborbital flights. 


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