Willows maintains a close friendship with the other investigators on the night shift, especially Grissom, though she has occasionally criticizes him for his lax attitude toward paperwork and office politics.

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.

That season, Grissom ran seven Nationwide Series races for Frank Cicci Racing, then spent 2003 at DCT Motorsports.

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

Grissom flew 100 combat missions during his time in the war, serving as a wingman protecting the lead fighters.

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.

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.

* 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.

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.

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.

" Consequently, as a young child, Grissom played doctor by performing necropsies on small, deceased animals in the local area.