Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) was an American engineer and pilot in the United States Air Force, as well as one of the...

Virgil I. Grissom High School, more commonly referred to as Grissom High School, is a public high school in Huntsville, Alabama, United States with approximately...

Mary C. Zornio, "Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissom," Nasa.gov, retrieved October 21, 2018. "Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom, dies at 91,"...

There are Grissom or Virgil I. Grissom middle schools in Mishawaka, Indiana, Sterling Heights, Michigan, and Tinley Park, Illinois. Virgil Grissom Elementary...

Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport (IATA: BFR, ICAO: KBFR, FAA LID: BFR) is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) southeast of the...

museum in Peru, Indiana, United States Grissom Joint Air Reserve Base, formerly Grissom Air Force Base Virgil I. Grissom High School, a high school in Huntsville...

(instigator and financier behind International Rescue), Virgil was named after astronaut Virgil Grissom. Sources vary in the canon of the Thunderbirds series...

around this time, including the 27 January 1967 deaths of Command Pilot Virgil Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward Higgins White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee aboard Apollo...

base was renamed Grissom Air Force Base in 1968 in memory of astronaut and Indiana native Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, USAF, who, along...

2000 Sports Night Steve Sarris Episode: "Dana Get Your Gun" G vs E Virgil Grissom Episode: "Underworld" 2000–01 Nash Bridges Inspector Antwon Babcock...

Pat Hughes (sportscaster) (born 1955), an American sportscaster Virgil Ivan Gus Grissom (1926–1967), an American astronaut and one of the first to die...

pilots who became known as the Mercury Seven, including: Chuck Yeager, Virgil Grissom, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra, and Donald...

are used for semi-trailer storage and American autocross racing. Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport – public use airport in Lawrence County near Bedford...

NASA on April 9, 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton. The Mercury Seven created...

North Scott Community School District in 1956, and is now served by Virgil Grissom Elementary School, which opened in 1967. The Methodist and the Presbyterian...

named after one of the Project Mercury astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom, John Glenn, Gordon Cooper and Alan Shepard. His wife died possibly...

some 200 miles south of Bermuda. She was to pick up astronauts Major Virgil Grissom and Lt. Cmdr. John W. Young and their space craft in the event that...

capsule #11, was nicknamed Liberty Bell 7. It was piloted by astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom. The spaceflight lasted 15 minutes 30 seconds, reached an altitude...

spaceflight, first American in space 2 1961-07-21 Mercury-Redstone 4 Virgil Grissom  United States Second crewed sub-orbital spaceflight, second American...

of Apollo I Crew - Gus Grissom". NASA History. Retrieved 16 December 2017. Howell, Elizabeth (28 January 2014). "Gus Grissom: 2nd American in Space"...

contests include: Alabama Statewide High School Mathematics Contest Virgil Grissom High School Math Tournament Vestavia Hills High School Math Tournament...

5A mission and was then refitted for the LJ-5B flight. John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, and Alan Shepard began a refresher course on the Aviation Medical Acceleration...

T-38 Talon jet trainer). Islands Chaffee (Roger B. Chaffee), Grissom (Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom) and White (Ed White) are named after the Apollo 1 astronauts...

Apollo 1. In 1967, he died in a fire along with fellow astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Ed White during a pre-launch test for the mission at what was...

School website Frank L. Gillespie School website Goethe School website Virgil Grissom School website Charles G. Hammond School website Helen M. Hefferan School...

force, if necessary, as a last resort". Mercury astronauts John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, and Alan Shepard were selected by the Space Task Group to begin special...

newer "pudknockers" who only dream about it. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Donald "Deke" Slayton, captains of the United States Air Force...

Railroad's history. Mitchell was also the birthplace of astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom (1926–1967). A mechanical engineering graduate of Purdue University...

1910)[4]. It also includes a marker for the birthplace of astronaut Virgil Grissom on Eighth Street. It was listed in the National Register of Historic...

astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, which they...