Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was a United States Air Force pilot and a NASA astronaut. A native of Mitchell, Indiana, he was the second American to fly in space and the first person to fly in space twice. He was killed during a training exercise for the Apollo One mission on January 27, 1967, at Launch Complex 34 at Cape Kennedy, along with fellow astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee. Wikipedia
Gus Grissom's spacesuit was out for cleaning when we visited the Grissom Memorial Museum -- but we saw his helmet and gloves. www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/INMITgusgrissom.html
The back handed stab GRISSOM AIR RESERVE BASE, Ind., -- Dan Keeney, a shortstop for the 74th Air Refueling Squadron Fighting Red Tags, makes a back handed stab at a ball laced up the middle. www.grissom.afrc.af.mil/
The same could not be said of Grissom's flight, which blasted off from Cape Canaveral on 21 July 1961. www.indianahistory.org/pop_hist/people/grissom.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Gus Grissom. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom
