Gus Grissom’s Space Suit Subject of Petition

Amanda Meyer is a girl with a mission. And we’re not just talking any mission, we’re talking about the Mercury mission, and more specifically Gus Grissom, one of the astronauts on the early Mercury mission. To get more specific still, the Wisconsin teenager has made it her mission to help Grissom’s family have the space suit which Grissom wore during the Mercury mission returned to them so that they can display it in their Gus Grissom Memorial Museum. Or, at least, loaned to them by the United States government.

Perhaps Amanda has taken a page from another plucky youngster, eleven-year old Thomas Adams, who this summer dedicated his own website to a petition drive to take on Warner Brothers and their new Loonatics. Or perhaps she just decided it was a good idea on her own.

In any case, Amanda Meyer, who by all accounts has always been both a space buff, and a go-getter, was appalled when she learned that the family of one of her space heros, Gus Grissom, was unable to get the United States government to return the space suit which Grissom wore during the 1961 Mercury mission, after Nasa acquired the suit when it took over the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The Astronaut Hall of Fame had previously been privately run, during which time Grissom’s widow, Betty, had loaned the space suit to the Hall of Fame. Once Nasa took over…

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