The team also had a solid but not stellar supporting cast including Marquis Grissom ( 22, 90,. 279 ) and Pedro Feliz ( 22, 84,. 276 ), along with decent showings by Ray Durham, Edgardo Alfonzo, Michael Tucker and AJ Pierzynski.

Grissom discovered that he was one of 110 military test pilots whose credentials had earned them an invitation to learn more about the space program in general and Project Mercury in particular.

Captain Grissom then underwent a series of physical and psychological tests and on April 13, 1959, was notified that he had been chosen as one of the seven Mercury astronauts.

Grissom asserted he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and NASA officials eventually concluded that he was correct.

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.

* Navi ( Ivan backwards ), a star also named Gamma Cassiopeiae: Grissom and one of his flight crews had used the star to calibrate their equipment, wrote the name in logs as a joke and it eventually stuck.

Grissom died while putting the finishing touches on Gemini: A Personal Account of Man's Venture Into Space ; he had been heavily involved in the engineering of the spacecraft.

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.

* 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.

Gil Grissom, played by William Petersen, finds a unique combination of medications on the leather gloves which Goodson had discarded at the murder location figuring that they could never be traced back to her.

Gemini 4's crew originally intended to call their spacecraft American Eagle, but this was rejected after NASA management issued a memo saying that they did not want a repeat performance of the previous mission, on which Gus Grissom had named his spacecraft Molly Brown.

Hoping to save money that had been committed to long-term contracts, Atlanta traded Grissom and two-time All-Star David Justice to the Indians, receiving in return three-time All-Star Kenny Lofton and setup man Alan Embree.

His family soon moved to Indiana because his stepfather had been transferred to Grissom Air Force Base near Peru, Indiana.

Alou would become the leader in Expos games managed, while guiding the team to winning records, including 1994, when the Expos, led by a talented group of players including Larry Walker, Moisés Alou, Marquis Grissom and Pedro Martínez, had the best record in the major leagues until the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike forced the cancellation of the remainder of the season.

Fred McGriff, who went two for three with a sacrifice fly, had single RBIs in the first, third, and fifth innings, while Marquis Grissom added a run-scoring single in the sixth.

Grissom, one of the " Mercury Seven " astronauts, had flown twice before.

Grissom became a crime scene investigator around 1985 ( Grissom mentioned in Living Doll, which first aired on May 17, 2007, that he had been a crime scene investigator for 22 years ).

Prior to his sabbatical, Grissom had been showing signs of " burnout ".

The case closed, Grissom, having already had a series of one-on-one farewells with his co-workers, silently left the crime lab and departed for Costa Rica for a reunion with fiancee Sara Sidle, an allusion perhaps to his comments in a season one episode that when he left, people would not throw a party for him, because he was not the sort of person who people would get deeply involved with.

Early episodes revealed Grissom to be a witty, enthusiastic and quirky scientist, who had some sense of humor.

In Two and a Half Deaths, Jim Brass was talking about a TV program which he thought had already " jumped the shark ," but Grissom did not know the term.

His relationship with Warrick Brown had aspects of a mentor / student bond, but out of all the CSIs ( Catherine included ), Grissom seemed to view Warrick as his successor, the one who would lead when he was gone.

It was not until the sixth season finale that it is revealed that Grissom and Sara have worked through whatever issues they had, and are, in fact, a couple, and have been for two years.

In season seven, Grissom took a sabbatical to teach a class at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts for four weeks.

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.

In season four, Grissom's true feelings were revealed in " Butterflied ", an episode that centers entirely around Grissom exploring his attraction to Sidle when confronted with a dead woman who bore a striking resemblance to her.

Despite a lack of major sponsorship, Grissom had four top-tens and finished 13th in points.

In 1990, Grissom won four races, including two straight, and finished third in points behind Chuck Bown and Jimmy Hensley.

All five members co-wrote all of the songs, with assistance from Verlon Dale Grissom on four of them.

Despite struggles in qualifying, Grissom had three top-tens and was narrowly defeated by Jeff Burton for Rookie of the Year.

Grissom was depicted by Fred Ward in the film The Right Stuff ( 1983 ) and ( very briefly ) in the film Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) by Steve Bernie.

Caray also delivered the call for the Braves ' World Series win in 1995, as Mark Wohlers got Carlos Baerga to fly out to Marquis Grissom to end the game:

In April 1995, the Expos traded Grissom to the Atlanta Braves, in exchange for pitcher Esteban Yan and outfielders Roberto Kelly and Tony Tarasco.

Diamond Ridge also bought Grissom's Busch Series operation, and running a part-time schedule Grissom won twice and finished 26th in points in 1995.

Steve Grissom drove the # 44 Hot Wheels Pontiac for the rest of the 2000 Winston Cup season and qualified 5 races in 2000.

Some critics of Buschwacking cite the lack of Nationwide Series veterans left in the series, after long-time series veterans and champions ( such as Steve Grissom, David Green, Randy Lajoie, Jason Keller, Casey Atwood, and Ashton Lewis ) could not find a team to drive for as all the seats were taken by Cup drivers.

During the season, Grissom ran one Winston Cup race for Dick Moroso at the Atlanta Journal 500, starting 23rd and finishing 24th.

In 1993, Grissom ran an additional Cup race for Diamond Ridge Motorsports at New Hampshire International Speedway, finishing 29th.

Actor Kevin McCorkle played Grissom in the third season finale of the NBC television show American Dreams.

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.

Grissom continued to struggle that year, but he enjoyed a strong bounce-back season as a part-time player in 2002.

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

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation producer and writer Carol Mendelsohn considers Grissom the center of the show, and in the first seven years of the show he appeared in every episode, with the exception of " Hollywood Brass ", from season five, " Gum Drops " and " The Unusual Suspect " from season six, and " Sweet Jane " and " Redrum " from season seven.

Although Petersen has confirmed that Grissom will not return to the show as a regular, he did reprise his role for an uncredited appearance in the season eleven episode " The Two Mrs. Grissoms.

During 2007 ( CSI season seven ) William Petersen took a break from CSI to appear in a five week run of the Trinity Repertory Company production of Dublin Carol in Providence, Rhode Island, resulting in Grissom taking a sabbatical, being replaced by Liev Schreiber, as Michael Keppler, who developed a small story arc through " Sweet Jane ", " Redrum " and " Meet Market ".

In the season 2 episode Alter Boys, Grissom confides in a priest that he does not believe in the concept of organized religion and is a lapsed Catholic, but does believe in the idea of God.

In the sixth season episode " Bang-Bang ," Grissom tells Doc Robbins, concerning a woman shot in the mouth, " This was someone who was emotionally close to her.

In the season six finale, it was revealed that Jim Brass's living will gave Grissom power of attorney, showing that Grissom was the one person Brass trusted with his life.

Since CSIs first season there were hints that both Sara Sidle and Grissom were interested in each other romantically.

A sizzling moment between Grissom and Sara Sidle on the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ( season 4 ) | 4th season episode " Invisible Evidence ".

In this season Sara apparently develops a drinking problem, which Grissom acknowledges on the season finale ; after this they would hardly see each other, and Grissom becomes interested in detective Sofia Curtis.