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* Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School, Houston.
* Virgil Grissom Elementary School, Old Bridge, New Jersey.
* Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School in the Hegewisch community of Chicago.
* Grissom Elementary School, Gary, Indiana.
* Virgil Grissom Elementary School, Princeton, Iowa.
* Grissom Elementary School, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
* Grissom Elementary School, Muncie, Indiana.
At the same time, the Huntsville City Schools named Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School and Virgil I. Grissom High School for White's fallen Apollo 1 crewmates.
* Grissom Elementary
* Elementary schools ( kindergarten-5th grade ): MacArthur Elementary School, V. I. Grissom Elementary School, and Wurtsmith Elementary School.
* Virgil I. Grissom Elementary School
Grissom and School
* The auditorium in Mitchell High School, which Grissom attended.
* Grissom Hall at Purdue University, his alma mater, was the home of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics for several decades.
* Virgil I. Grissom High School, Huntsville, Alabama.
* Virgil I. Grissom Middle School, Mishawaka, Indiana.
* Virgil I. Grissom Middle School, Tinley Park, Illinois.
* Virgil I. Grissom Middle School, Sterling Heights, Michigan.
* Virgil I. Grissom Junior High School 226, South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City, New York.
* Virgil I. Grissom School No. 7, Rochester, New York.
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.
* May 22, 1968: Miami, Florida Ernest Lee Grissom, a 15-year-old student at Drew Junior High School, shot and seriously wounded a teacher and a 13-year-old student after he had been reprimanded for causing a disturbance.
* Grissom Middle School
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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 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.
* Grissom Hall, State University of New York at Fredonia.
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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