Who Could Ever Compete With The Moon? The True Stories Of The Astronaut Wives Club

Betty Grissom Believed Her Husband Was Murdered By NASA

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As the lives of the wives progressed, some of them remained loyal to NASA and their husbands even after divorces – but Betty and her sons made headlines in 1999 when they claimed that Gus was purposefully killed in the simulated Apollo I launch.

Gus, along with two other astronauts, was killed in a flash fire that was caused by the pure oxygen atmosphere in the capsule. In the ’90s Scott Grissom was given access to the capsule in which his father perished in 1967. He found a metal plate behind the control switch, and believes NASA killed his father to stop him from being the first man to walk on the moon.