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* Grissom Avenue at the former Mather Air Force Base, now known as Sacramento Mather Airport, Rancho Cordova, California, is one of a number of streets at the former base named after Mercury, Gemini and Apollo program astronauts.
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* Grissom's boyhood home on Grissom Avenue ( renamed in his honor after his Mercury flight ) in Mitchell, Indiana, is currently being restored into a museum.
Roxy Theater-The Roxy Theater is located in Jackson Avenue, in the downtown area, just next to Grissom Cleaners.
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* 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Grissom was killed along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ( then known as Cape Kennedy ), Florida.
Grissom met and befriended Betty Lavonne Moore at school through their extracurricular activities.
Grissom occasionally spent time at a local airport in Bedford, Indiana where he first became interested in flying.
Bill for partial payment of his school tuition, Grissom enrolled at Purdue University in September 1946.
After his birth they joined Grissom at his base in Arizona.
Grissom is at the far left.
Grissom was a Lieutenant Colonel at the time of his death, and he had logged a total of 4, 600 hours flying time, including 3, 500 hours in jet airplanes.
NASA insisted Grissom got authorization to use the spacesuit for a show and tell at his son's school and never returned it but some Grissom family members claimed the astronaut rescued the spacesuit from a scrap heap.
* Grissom is named with his fellow Apollo 1 crewmates on the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
* The Gus Grissom Stakes, thoroughbred horse race run each fall at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana.
* Grissom Hall at the former Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, where Minuteman missile maintenance training was conducted.
* Grissom Hall at Purdue University, his alma mater, was the home of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics for several decades.
* Grissom Hall, State University of New York at Fredonia.
Grissom Elementary School, at the closed Clark Air Base, Philippines.
Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet ( 1951 ) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U. S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas.
* Grissom page at Astronaut Memorial Foundation
White died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee during a pre-launch test for the first manned Apollo mission at Cape Kennedy.
White was buried with full military honors at West Point Cemetery while Grissom and Chaffee are both buried in Section 3 ( GPS Coordinates: 38. 873115 N ,-77. 072755 W ) of Arlington National Cemetery.
Chaffee died along with fellow astronauts Gus Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the Apollo 1 mission at the then-Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida, in 1967.
On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.
Chaffee and Grissom are both buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, while White is buried at West Point Cemetery.
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The former military base Grissom provided several retired servicemen who served in various capacities ( i. e. LTC Hal Ivy ).
** Bunker Hill Air Force Base, former name of Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, located west of the town of Bunker Hill
In 2007, Lee joined former major league players Dennis ' Oil Can ' Boyd, Marquis Grissom, Delino DeShields and Ken Ryan on the Oil Can Boyd's Traveling All-Stars.
Marquis Deon Grissom (; born April 17, 1967 ) is a former American Major League Baseball player.
He is close friends with former nightshift supervisor Gil Grissom.
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* Cyrus " The Virus " Grissom, a character in the 1997 film Con Air, played by John Malkovich
Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.
Grissom enlisted as an aviation cadet in the United States Army Air Forces and completed an entrance exam in November 1943.
Grissom re-enlisted in the military after his graduation from Purdue, this time in the newly formed United States Air Force.
The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.
United States Air Force | USAF F-86 Sabre | F-86F similar to the aircraft Grissom flew in Korea.
In August 1955, Grissom was reassigned to the Air Force Institute of Technology located in Dayton, Ohio.
* Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, was renamed on May 12, 1968, to Grissom Air Force Base.
In 1994 it was again renamed to Grissom Air Reserve Base following the USAF's realignment program.
* Grissom Dining Facility, Misawa Air Base, Japan.
* Grissom was the " Class Exemplar " of the United States Air Force Academy class of 2007.
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* 434th Air Refueling Wing, Grissom ARB, Indiana
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