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Gus Grissom was the second American to fly in space on Liberty Bell 7 and also flew aboard Gemini 3.
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* 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.
* 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space ( in a suborbital mission ).
* Virgil Ivan " Gus " Grissom, USAF ( 1926 – 1967 ); flew 21 July 1961.
* 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States ' first two-man space flight ( crew: Gus Grissom and John Young ).
* April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut ( d. 1967 )
* July 21 – Mercury program: Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space ( sub-orbital ).
** 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.
*** Gus Grissom, American astronaut ( b. 1926 )
* March 23 – Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States ' first 2-person crew ( Gus Grissom, John Young ) into Earth orbit.
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.
Gus Grissom is buried in Section 3 of the Arlington National Cemetery, near Roger Chaffee.
* Virgil " Gus " Grissom Park, Fullerton, California.
* The Gus Grissom Stakes, thoroughbred horse race run each fall at Hoosier Park in Anderson, Indiana.
The character Gus Griswald in the popular children's TV show Recess is named after Grissom ( his fictional father is a General in the US Army and Gus is his recruit ).
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.
* Indiana Historical Society tribute to Gus Grissom
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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.
Charred remains of the Apollo 1 Apollo Command / Service Module | command module, in which White was killed along with Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee
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.
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Gus Van Sant's 2000 Finding Forrester was quickly billed " Good Will Hunting in the Hood.
In 1904 the ground was acquired by businessman Gus Mears and his brother Joseph, who had also purchased nearby land ( formerly a large market garden ) with the aim of staging football matches on the now 12. 5 acre ( 51, 000 m² ) site.
According to director Gus Van Sant, the character of Bob in My Own Private Idaho was based upon Falstaff, and the character of Scott was based on Prince Hal.
In the summer of 1913, while he was a lifeguard on the beach at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, Rockne and his college teammate and roommate Gus Dorais worked on passing techniques.
Two of his five children, his eldest daughters, died from cancer ( breast cancer and lymphoma ), while his elder son, Gus, was killed when a Piper PA-18 ( Super Cub, registration G-AYPN ) crashed into a hillside at Ditcham Park Woods near Petersfield, Hampshire, on 28 August 1971.
The originally selected pseudonym (" Gus Pillsbury ") was the name of King's maternal grandfather ; but at the last moment King changed it to " Richard Bachman ," in tribute to crime author Donald E. Westlake's long-running pseudonym Richard Stark.
It was composed by Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann, with lyrics by Gus Kahn.
Gus Hall ( born Arvo Kustaa Halberg ; October 8, 1910 – October 13, 2000 ) was a leader and Chairman of the Communist Party USA ( CPUSA ) and its four-time U. S. presidential candidate.
The NRDC was co-founded in 1970 by John Adams, Richard Ayres, John Bryson, Edward Strohbehn, and Gus Speth, together with a board of scientists and attorneys at the forefront of the environmental movement.
Gus Cannon's " Walk Right In " was a # 1 hit for The Rooftop Singers in 1963, the only time a jug band song topped the charts.
Buck was paired with Jay Randolph and Gus Kyle on Blues broadcasts and covered the 1968 Stanley Cup Final for KMOX radio.
Fanny Coot was first mentioned in the Donald Duck comic strip of May 9, 1938 where Gus Goose first appeared.
In 1996, Smith was tapped by director and fellow Portland resident Gus Van Sant to be a part of the soundtrack to his film, Good Will Hunting.
It was at that first race that Bell first met her future coach Gus Ryder, who was coach of the Lakeshore Swimming Club.
The area was renamed in 1952 after Gus A. Engeling, the first biologist assigned to the area, was shot and killed by a poacher on December 13, 1951.
The phrase has been attributed to the radio disc jockey Gus Gossert but Gossert himself said that " doo-wop ( p ) was already being used me to categorize the music in California.
" Gus " Grissom was born and raised in Mitchell.
* Former Arkansas State Treasurer and current state auditor Gus Wingfield was born in Antoine and attended public school in Delight.
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Hank Foiles, backed up by Frank House who will be within calling distance in the minors, make up better second line catching than the Birds had all last year, but Gus is still that big man you need when you start talking pennant.
His children from his second marriage were better known by their family nicknames than their birth names: Gus ( real name Stewart ), Fusty ( real name Marylla ), Suki ( real name Serena ) and Peski ( real name Richard ).
Gus Goose is Donald Duck's second cousin, and the great-nephew of Grandma Duck.
U. S. astronaut Gus Grissom, native of Mitchell, Indiana, in front of the Liberty Bell 7 capsule, in which he became the second American to fly in outer space
Wildcat Wilson and Clyde Smith were named to the first team, while Curly Oden, Milt Rehnquist, and Gus Sonnenberg were placed on the second team.
The second hash group to form was by Gus Mackey on the Italian Riviera, named the Bordighera H3.
Carpenter was the second American to orbit the Earth and the fourth American in space, following Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn.
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.
In mid-1980, Wilson had begun working on her second album for Motown with English record producer Gus Dudgeon, who had produced the tracks " Love Talk ", " Save Me ", " You Danced My Heart Around the Stars " and " Green River " for the record.
On 26 July 1948, Mills was matched against Gus Lesnevich for his second attempt at the world light-heavyweight title.
Nellie Fox hit a bunt down the third base line and, when Orioles third baseman, Gus Triandos, left his base to field the ball, Carrasquel rounded second base and continued to third, where he was called safe on a close play.
Gipp was selected as Notre Dame's first All-American and is Notre Dame's second consensus All-American ( of 79 ), after Gus Dorais.
During this period, Kaufman also directed and starred in his second feature film, The Battle of Love's Return, which garnered positive reviews in publications such as The New York Times, wrote and produced the lesbian thriller Sugar Cookies ( with Oliver Stone ), and wrote and directed another film, the Israeli comedy flop Big Gus, What's the Fuss ?.
Preston Smith ( second from left ) with House Speaker Gus Mutscher, former president Lyndon B. Johnson and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes ( politician ) | Ben Barnes in Brenham, Texas | Brenham, August 17, 1970.
The PPP came second, after the government sponsored Golkar organization in the elections of 1977 and 1982, but in 1984, the new NU chairman Abdurrahman Wahid ( also known as Gus Dur ), the son of Wahid Haschim, withdrew the NU from the PPP because of dissatisfaction with the NU's lack of influence.
Gus Dur was reelected for a second five-year term as chairman, a position he held until being elected president in 1999.
* Gus Goose, Donald Duck's second cousin
They have also confirmed that Gus and Geoff would be replaced in the second season by Gavin and Michael.
Early in the second quarter, Redskins cornerback Champ Bailey intercepted a pass from Gus Frerotte, setting up a 33-yard field goal from Brett Conway.
Soon after, Jackson left and was replaced by Gus Backus, the group's second white member.
Warner Amex Cable Company, run by Gus Hauser, would build local cable systems across the United States ( today as Time Warner Cable, the second largest cable operator in America ), and Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company ( WASEC ), run by former CBS Network President John A. Schneider, to supply programming to the rapidly expanding cable television universe.
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