* Virgil Ivan " Gus " Grissom, USAF ( 1926 – 1967 ); flew 21 July 1961.

United States Air Force | USAF F-86 Sabre | F-86F similar to the aircraft Grissom flew in Korea.

In early 1964 Alan Shepard was grounded after being diagnosed with Ménière's disease and Grissom was designated command pilot for Gemini 3, the first manned Project Gemini flight, which flew on March 23, 1965.

* The airport in Bedford, Indiana where Grissom flew as a teenager was renamed Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport.

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.

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.

The Indians made it to the World Series, where they fell to the Atlanta Braves in six games ( Baerga flew out to Marquis Grissom for the final out ).

Grissom has received positive responses from critics, ranking number 82 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters list, along with Catherine Willows.

Catherine Willows is listed as number 82 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, along with Gil Grissom, her mentor on the show.

Titov orbited the Earth over 17 times, exceeding the single orbit of Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 − as well as the suborbital spaceflights of American astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom aboard their respective Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4 missions.

Grissom found this to be highly amusing, saying later, " After the flight our superiors at NASA let us know in no uncertain terms that non-man-rated corned beef sandwiches were out for future space missions.

* 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.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

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.

When the US Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 his family lent it the spacesuit worn by Grissom during Mercury 4 along with other personal artifacts belonging to the astronaut.

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.

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.

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.

For television, the actor portrayed a character who temporarily replaces Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, in the CBS show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, during the 2006 – 2007 season.

Young atop a Gemini spacecraft with Grissom in the water at left at the Manned Spacecraft Center during water egress training

But in January 1967, Grissom and his crew were killed in a cabin fire during a ground test of Apollo 1.

Players such as Delino DeShields, Andrés Galarraga, Marquis Grissom, Randy Johnson, and Larry Walker wore Indianapolis uniforms during those memorable years.

Dubbed a " class act " and " clubhouse leader " by his Giants teammates during the 2005 season, Marquis Grissom leads by example off the field.

The GSR (" Grissom and Sara Romance "; the abbreviation is a play on the term for gunshot residue, often mentioned in CSI ) has accumulated an extensive fan base during the years with some sites getting thousands of viewers a week.

Despite being calm, Grissom can get very angry or annoyed if interrupted during an interrogation as seen in Season 1's Table Stakes when he berates Nick Stokes for calling him out of interrogation.

In fact, the show's creators made Sara Sidle while thinking of a future love interest for Grissom, but during the show's first three seasons, Grissom flirted with all the female characters, and when Sara asked him out to dinner, he rejected her, claiming that he did not know what to do about what is going on between them.

Consequently, Sara Sidle is submerged into depression after her kidnap in the season seven finale, and, even though she accepts Grissom's marriage proposal on the season's fourth episode, she shows signs of burnout during the subsequent episodes, breaking down on the season's seventh episode, leaving Las Vegas and the CSIs with only a goodbye letter for Grissom and a good luck note for Ronnie Lake.

These islands, named Oil Islands Freeman, Grissom, White, and Chaffee, are named for Theodore Freeman, the first United States NASA astronaut to die during flight, and for Virgil I. Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee, who were killed by a fire during the Apollo One mission.

This is one of the four " Astronaut Islands " built in Long Beach Harbor during the late 1960s as unsinkable platforms for oil drilling ; the others were named Grissom, White and Chaffee, in honor of the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 fire.

Raines raced 31 times during the season, with the exception of the Coca-Cola 300, in which Steve Grissom drove.

Grissom occasionally spent time at a local airport in Bedford, Indiana where he first became interested in flying.

Grissom re-enlisted in the military after his graduation from Purdue, this time in the newly formed United States Air Force.

During this time Grissom invented the multi-axis translation thruster controller used to push the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft in linear directions for rendezvous and docking.

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.

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.

In late 1966, Schirra was assigned to command a three-man Apollo crew with Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham to make the second manned flight test of the Apollo Command / Service Module some time in 1967, after the first such flight to be made by Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

Three demo albums of Aiken's vocals were created before American Idol with the aid of studio time given as a birthday gift by his mother: a cassette called Look What Love Has Done ( by Clayton Grissom ), a cassette and CD entitled Redefined ( by Clayton Aiken ), and a CD that combined some songs from each of the previous demos: " Look What Love Has Done, Vol 2 " ( by Clay Aiken ).

McDivitt must have switched to the VOX setting somewhere around the time White was exiting the spacecraft, because at that point, for most of the EVA, neither he nor White responded either to the Hawaii CAPCOM, or to the Houston CAPCOM, Gus Grissom.

The novelizations of both films do expand upon the planned romantic subplot and establish that, by the time of David and Saavik's posting aboard the Grissom, they were already lovers.

Grissom performed exceptionally well in that postseason, winning the MVP award in the ALCS, and completing a 15 game World Series consecutive game hitting streak spanning 3 World Series, the 2nd longest of all time next to Hank Bauer of the New York Yankees.

He spent his early time in the majors playing in right field because established center fielders Marquis Grissom and Kenny Lofton were already entrenched in the position.

Grissom once mentioned losing a body while in Minneapolis, implying he spent time there before taking a job in Las Vegas.

This has been denied by the writers, Carol Mendelsohn even said that she has never been able to see Grissom with someone else other than Sara and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship, Jorja Fox and William Petersen have also admitted that the relationship is not new.

Some time later, while she was working in San Francisco, Grissom called her because he was in need of someone outside the Las Vegas team.

In one interview, producer Carol Mendelsohn said that she has never been able to see Grissom with any other character other than Sidle and that this episode was seen by the writers as the right time to reveal the relationship.

Grissom's mother ends up criticising Sara for not spending much time with Grissom.

In Season Three episode Precious Metal, Greg first concretely expressed a desire to move from the DNA lab to the field despite the decrease in salary that this would involve, a statement in response to which Grissom looked at Greg as if seeing him for the first time.