Decent offensive support was provided by Rich Aurilia, Marquis Grissom, Jose Cruz Jr., Edgardo Alfonzo, Benito Santiago, Pedro Feliz and Andres Galarraga.

Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.

Grissom was born in Mitchell, Indiana on April 3, 1926, the second child of Dennis and Cecile King Grissom.

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

The family remained there only briefly and in December 1951 they moved to Presque Isle, Maine where Grissom was assigned to Presque Isle Air Force Base and became a member of the 75th Fighter Interceptor Squadron.

On March 11, 1952, Grissom was promoted to First Lieutenant and was cited for his " superlative airmanship ".

Grissom requested to remain in Korea to fly another 25 flights, but his request was denied.

In August 1955, Grissom was reassigned to the Air Force Institute of Technology located in Dayton, Ohio.

The message was classified " Top Secret " and Grissom was not to discuss its contents with anyone.

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.

On July 21, 1961, Grissom was pilot of the second Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 4, popularly known as Liberty Bell 7.

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

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

Initiating the explosive egress system required hitting a metal trigger with the side of a closed fist, which unavoidably left a large, obvious bruise on the astronaut's hand, but Grissom was found not to have any of the tell-tale bruising.

Grissom was surrounded by reporters in a news conference after his space flight in America's second manned ship.

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.

Grissom was one of the eight pilots of the NASA paraglider research vehicle.

* 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.

** 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.

Charred remains of the Apollo 1 Apollo Command / Service Module | command module, in which White was killed along with Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee

On April 6, 1972, the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while attempting to serve a warrant on Bert Grissom ; Sheriff Douglas Batey and Deputies Glen Ray Archer and Troy Key were killed ; Sheriff Batey was replaced by William Thomas Pond as Sheriff, but Sheriff Pond was killed also on June 8, 1973, in an automobile accident.

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

" Gus " Grissom, killed in the Apollo 1 accident

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

* Gus Grissom ( 1926-1967 ), one of the seven original American astronauts, killed in the Apollo 1 fire

He is later killed by Napier when Eckhardt seemingly betrayed Carl Grissom.

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.

Later in the third season, she is injured in an explosion in the lab and, realizing she could have been killed, she decides to ask Grissom out, though he turns her down.

Having later commanded the Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Grissom was assigned as commander for the first manned Apollo mission, but was killed with the rest of his crew during a fire in his Apollo 1 capsule during a pre-launch rehearsal on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in January 1967.

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.

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.

* Virgil Ivan Grissom Photographs of grave site, Arlington National Cemetery along with other photographs and a brief biography.

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.

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.

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.

He served as a capsule communicator, along with Virgil " Gus " Grissom and Eugene Cernan, for the Gemini 4 mission, in which Edward H. White II made his space walk.

On 21 March 1966, he received his first spaceflight assignment as Pilot for the first manned Apollo flight, AS-204, along with Command Pilot Grissom and Senior Pilot White.

Justice was later traded along with outfielder Marquis Grissom to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder Kenny Lofton and relief pitcher Alan Embree.

The lone exception was Gus Grissom, who, along with Ed White and Roger Chaffee, all perished aboard Apollo 1 in a tragic launchpad fire ten years earlier .< ref name =" os ">

The FBI arrives at the mansion, headed by Dale Grissom ( Fred Thompson ), where they try to piece together clues along with Bink's parents and his loving nanny Gilbertine ( Cynthia Nixon ).

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

The rim of Grissom is eroded in places, particularly along the northeast where a pair of small craters lie along the sides.

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