On July 21, 1961, Virgil "Gus" Grissom became the second of the Mercury Seven astronauts to be launched into space in the capsule Liberty Bell 7. The flight lasted a little over 15 minutes and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and splashed down over 262 nautical miles downrange. Upon recovery, the hatch bolts of the capsule inexplicably ignited, sending the astronaut into the ocean, and filling the Liberty Bell 7 with water, causing it to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Join Shannon Whetzel, curator at The Cosmosphere Space Museum, for a presentation on the Liberty Bell 7, from the heights of its sub-orbital flight to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, and its eventual recovery and preservation.