{"id":6151,"date":"2026-07-21T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:18:13","slug":"grissom-traveled-into-space-in-1961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6151","title":{"rendered":"Grissom Traveled into Space in 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10480\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10480\" class=\"wp-image-10480 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Gus-Grissom-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gus Grissom\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus Grissom<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Virgil \u201cGus\u201d Grissom became the second American to travel\u00a0<\/strong><strong>into space in 1961<\/strong>. Aboard <i>Liberty Bell 7<\/i>, he reached an altitude of 118 miles and flew about 300 miles away from Cape Canaveral. Children could read about his life at: <a href=\"https:\/\/history.nasa.gov\/Apollo204\/zorn\/grissom.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grissom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil \u201cGus\u201d Grissom became the second American to travel\u00a0into space in 1961. Aboard Liberty Bell 7, he reached an altitude of 118 miles and flew about 300 miles away from Cape Canaveral. Children could read about his life at: Grissom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5309,5732,5731,793,792,791],"class_list":["post-6151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5309","tag-cape-canaveral","tag-july-21","tag-liberty-bell-7","tag-second-american-to-travel-iinto-space","tag-virgil-gus-grissom","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29575,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions\/29575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}