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?