Grissom may not ask to take on the role of mentor, but it seems to happen naturally, going all the way back to Sara Sidle when they first met in San Francisco, then Nick Stokes and Greg Sanders in Vegas.

While at Berkeley, she started a work-study position at the San Francisco Coroner ’ s office, where she would also audit lectures to keep up with new developments ; it was at one of these that she met Gil Grissom.

The character has often met with the disapproval of his supervisor Gil Grissom, due to listening to loud music such as Marilyn Manson while running lab machines and hiding porn magazines in some area cabinets.

According to editor Jacob Hay, the book's final form was " reached with the approval of Mrs. Betty Grissom.

Betty Grissom co-wrote a memoir with Henry Still, titled Starfall ( New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974.

He was asked by Betty Grissom, the widow of astronaut Gus Grissom, to be one of the pallbearers at Grissom's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

* 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 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 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.

World War II broke out while Grissom was still in high school, and he was eager to enlist upon graduation.

( This school was named for Grissom several years before his death.

Quickly exiting through the open hatch and into the ocean, Grissom was nearly drowned as water began filling his spacesuit.

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.

Polonia singled through the right side to drive in Grissom, sending Nagy to the showers.

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 ".

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.

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

In the tenth episode of season nine, " One to Go ", Grissom is seen walking through a rain forest, holding a GPS System that places him in Costa Rica.

Grissom started 1996 off on a high note, winning the season-opening Busch Series race driving the WCW car, but he was released from Diamond Ridge after the Miller 400 race midway through the season.

** 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.

* 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.

" Gus " Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee were killed in a cabin fire aboard their Apollo 1 Command Module, also designated AS-204.

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.

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.

San Francisco signed Grissom, and he enjoyed two more productive seasons as their starting center fielder.

Waiting for their signatures were astronauts Gus Grissom, Pete Conrad, Alan Shepard and Wally Schirra in line with their children.

Both Irene and Lady Heather enchant Holmes and Grissom with their beauty, their wit and their resolution.

Late in the season, he received a call from Larry Hedrick Motorsports, who had been struggling following the release of Steve Grissom from their # 41 Kodiak Chevy.

He later tells Gil Grissom that he has kept his promotion to CSI a secret from his parents because he didn't want to worry them ; they had, for the most part, tried to keep him from playing aggressive sports out of fear of injury to their only child.

Unknown to Grissom, these stars already had traditional names ; however, those were not generally used, allowing the three other names to make their way into other records.

Grissom began his racing career as a youth, working on cars with his father Wayne, who was a sponsor of short track drivers in their homestate of Alabama.

In 2000, Grissom was hired by Petty Enterprises to drive their # 43 Dodge Ram in the Craftsman Truck Series.

The crew selected on March 21, 1966 for AS-204 consisted of Command Pilot Virgil " Gus " Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, who named their mission Apollo 1.