Gus Grissom Offered “Titanic”

After NASA astronaut Gus Grissom barely survived the splashdown of Liberty Bell 7 in 1961, he decided his next capsule needed a joke. For his Gemini mission, he named the spacecraft “Molly Brown,” a nod to the Broadway show "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." NASA hated the name and asked him to pick something else, and Grissom offered “Titanic.”

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