Twas allegedly Unsinkable, like the Titanic passenger who was actually a real person but became even more of a legend in the James Cameron movie with actress Kathy Bates in the role of Unsinkable Molly Brown. read more
As the Command Pilot on Gemini 3, Grissom got to name it. He name it Molly Brown (the official name) after the Broadway Show at the time called The Unsinkable Molly Brown. You might remember that Molly Brown was one of the noted survivors of the Titanic sinking. read more
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they nicknamed Molly Brown. read more