This is how Gus Grissom "screwed the pooch.":
Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom couldn't resist the urge to take a pocket full of
space history home to the kiddies. Grissom boarded his space capsule in 1961
with pockets stuffed full of soon-to-be collectors items: two rolls of fifty
dimes, some small models of the capsule, and two sets of pilot's wings.
According to Wolfe's controversial account, a panicking Grissom "screwed the
pooch" while reaching for memorabilia that had fallen to the capsule floor.
He accidentally blew the spacecraft's hatch, flooding the capsule and nearly
sinking him with it. In NASA's (and ultimately Grissom's) official account,
the hatch blew for no reason at all, an electrical fluke. But even in this
version, Grissom expressed regret about all those shameful trinkets, saying
their weight nearly drowned him as he awaited rescue.
How will Lance "screw the pooch", in this year's Tour?