* Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Peru, Indiana, was renamed on May 12, 1968, to Grissom Air Force Base.

** Bunker Hill Air Force Base, former name of Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, located west of the town of Bunker Hill

In May 1959, the 305th Bomb Wing with B-47's was reassigned to Bunker Hill AFB, later Grissom AFB, Indiana.

* Grissom Hill ( after Gus Grissom ) is located 7. 5 km ( 4. 7 mi ) southwest of Columbia Memorial Station

Grissom Hill

Grissom Hill, named after American astronaut Virgil I.

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* Grissom Air Force Base, in Bunker Hill, Indiana

After 26 years of bearing the name Bunker Hill, the base was renamed Grissom AFB on 12 May 1968 after Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I.

* Bunker Hill ( later, Grissom ) AFB, IN, 1 June 1959 – 1 October 1994

Grissom is at the far left.

Gus Grissom is buried in Section 3 of the Arlington National Cemetery, near Roger Chaffee.

* Grissom is named with his fellow Apollo 1 crewmates on the Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.

* A landmark on the moon is called Marina Grissom.

* 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.

* Virgil I. Grissom Bridge across the Hampton River, on Rt 258 ( Mercury Blvd, named after the Mercury program ) in Hampton, VA, is one of the six bridges and one road named after the original 7 Mercury astronauts, who trained in the area.

* 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.

In the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock the Federation starship sent to survey the newly formed Genesis Planet is named USS Grissom.

A second starship in Star Trek: The Next Generation is also said to be called USS Grissom.

The character Gus Griswald in the popular children's TV show Recess is named after Grissom ( his fictional father is a General in the US Army and Gus is his recruit ).

A book titled: " Seven Minus One: the Story of Astronaut Gus Grissom " was self published in 1968 by Carl L. Chappell, Ph. D. through New Frontier Publishing Co. of Madison, Indiana and is probably the earliest biography of Col. Grissom.

Chaffee and Grissom are both buried in Section 3 of Arlington National Cemetery, while White is buried at West Point Cemetery.

Huntsville, also known as " Rocket City " because it is a major center for space technology and rocket development, simultaneously named Ed White Middle School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for his Apollo 1 crewmates.

Gil Grissom on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation TV show is an entomologist, who is played by actor William Petersen.

Roxy Theater-The Roxy Theater is located in Jackson Avenue, in the downtown area, just next to Grissom Cleaners.

It is the birthplace of astronaut Gus Grissom, who flew on Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 3, and died in a launch pad fire at Kennedy Space Center in 1967.

Among the early settlers of the area which is now Broadway were: Hugh Matthews, Grissom Thomas, Tilmon Thomas, M. M.

The spacecraft is on display within the Grissom Memorial of Spring Mill State Park, two miles east of Grissom's hometown of Mitchell, Indiana.

Grissom Hall is located in the Kirkland complex across from Erie Dining Hall.

* 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space ( in a suborbital mission ).

* July 21 – Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space ( sub-orbital ).

Grissom in front of the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft

On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7.

* Virgil I. Grissom School No. 7, Rochester, New York.

In March 1966 he was selected as Senior Pilot ( second seat ) for the first manned Apollo flight, designated AS-204, along with Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, who had flown in space on the Mercury 4 Liberty Bell 7 mission and as commander of the Gemini 3 Molly Brown mission, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who had yet to fly into space.

The Virgil I. Gus Grissom Memorial, located just inside of Spring Mill State Park near Mitchell, contains many mementos of Grissom's career, including the space capsule he commanded, " The Molly Brown ", from Gemini 3, and the space suit worn during his Mercury Liberty Bell 7 mission.

U. S. astronaut Gus Grissom, native of Mitchell, Indiana, in front of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, in which he became the second American to fly in outer space

Gus Grissom was the second American to fly in space on Liberty Bell 7 and also flew aboard Gemini 3.

* The Mercury spacecraft that astronaut Gus Grissom flew on July 21, 1961, was dubbed Liberty Bell 7.

Grissom, hoping to avoid duplication of the experience with his Mercury flight Liberty Bell 7 in which the capsule sank after splashdown, named the Gemini 3 spacecraft Molly Brown, in a playful reference to the Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Grissom climbs into Liberty Bell 7.

The Giants relied more heavily on relief pitching with Hoyt Wilhelm ( 12 – 7, 2. 10, 7 saves ) and Marv Grissom ( 10 – 7, 2. 35, 19 saves ) rounding out a staff that led the NL in team ERA at 3. 09 and shutouts with 17.

* David Grissom – Acoustic Guitar ( 7, 10 )