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Gemini; a personal account of Man's venture into space / by Grissom, Virgil I.(CARDINAL)128507;
Subjects: Project Gemini (U.S.);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Starfall / by Grissom, Betty,1927-2018.(CARDINAL)804804; Still, Henry.(CARDINAL)123240;
Bibliography: page 261.
Subjects: Biographies.; Grissom, Virgil I.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gus Grissom : the lost astronaut / by Boomhower, Ray E.,1959-(CARDINAL)356143;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-393).
Subjects: Biographies.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Astronauts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Calculated risk : the supersonic life and times of Gus Grissom / by Leopold, George,1955-author.(CARDINAL)413286;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-356) and index.Introduction : pure oxygen -- 1926 -- Work -- Purdue -- Wingman -- Test pilot -- Mercury seven -- Extracurricular activities -- The flight of Liberty Bell 7 -- Down a peg -- Apogee -- Risk and reward -- How astronauts talk -- Front of the line -- Death at 218 feet -- Abandon in place.Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs save for an account of his role in the Gemini program before the tragic launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, which took his life and those of Edward White and Roger Chaffee. The international prestige of winning the Moon Race cannot be understated, and Grissom played a pivotal and enduring role in securing that legacy for the United States. Indeed, Grissom was first and foremost a Cold Warrior, a member of the first group of Mercury astronauts whose goal it was to beat the Soviet Union to the moon. Drawing on extensive interviews with fellow astronauts, NASA engineers, family members, and friends of Gus Grissom, George Leopold delivers a comprehensive survey of Grissom's life that places his career in the context of the Cold War and the history of human spaceflight. Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom adds significantly to our understanding of that tumultuous period in American history.
Subjects: Biographies.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Astronauts;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Gus Grissom : the tragedy of Apollo 1 / by Greenberger, Robert.(CARDINAL)778708;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-109) and index.Finding his way -- From top gun pilot to NASA recruit -- Space training -- Grissom and Liberty Bell 7 -- Gemini 3 -- An astronaut's last ride -- A pioneer's legacy.
Subjects: Biographies.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Astronauts; Astronauts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Gus Grissom : a space biography / by Bredeson, Carmen.(CARDINAL)206958;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A biography of one of America's first seven astronauts, focusing on the training and career of Gus Grissom, who died in a fire aboard Apollo I in 1967.1020LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Astronauts; Astronauts;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Gemini summer / by Lawrence, Iain,1955-(CARDINAL)641178;
In 1965, Danny's grief over the death of his older brother Beau is eased when a stray puppy adopts him, but he soon realizes that Beau is somehow in the dog, and sets out to make his brother's dream of seeing a rocket launch at Cape Kennedy come true. In the quiet of Hog's Hollow, each member of the River family pursues a dream. Old Man River sets out to build a fallout shelter in case the war in Vietnam "brings the end of everything;" his wife Flo, who collects Gone with the Wind dolls, attempts to pen her own Southern saga; Beau, their older son, suffers from "space fever" and aspires to be an astronaut. As for Danny, the younger River boy, well, he just dreams of having a dog. Then in the spring of 1965 tragedy befalls the Rivers--a tragedy that makes the Old Man wish he'd never started building the shelter, stops Flo from finishing her bestseller, and leaves Beau grounded rather than airborne. But the tragedy does finally bring a dog into Danny's life. And not just any old dog. Danny comes to believe that the mixed-breed stray embodies the spirit of someone he dearly loves. He won't allow anyone to separate him from the dog, not even after it bites the neighborhood bully and the police are sent to take it away. Together Danny and his dog run off, heading toward Cape Caneveral, where the Gemini missions blast off from, and where dreams come true.008-012.760LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Grissom, Virgil I.; Project Gemini (U.S.); Brothers; Death; Dogs; Families;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Apollo 13 ; The right stuff ; First man [videorecording] / by Howard, Ron,1954-director.(CARDINAL)318701; Hanks, Tom,actor.(CARDINAL)318707; Bacon, Kevin,actor.; Paxton, Bill,actor.(CARDINAL)318705; Sinise, Gary,actor.(CARDINAL)318704; Harris, Ed,1950-actor.(CARDINAL)318703; Quinlan, Kathleen,1954-actor.(CARDINAL)318702; Kaufman, Philip,1936-director, screenwriter.(CARDINAL)529419; Frank, Charles,1947-actor.; Glenn, Scott,1942-actor.; Henriksen, Lance,1940-actor.(CARDINAL)529475; Quaid, Dennis,actor.(CARDINAL)354976; Shepard, Sam,1943-2017,actor.(CARDINAL)148995; Ward, Fred,1942-2022,actor.; Stanley, Kim,actor.(CARDINAL)435424; Hershey, Barbara,1948-actor.; Cartwright, Veronica,actor.; Reed, Pamela,actor.; Chazelle, Damien,1985-director.(CARDINAL)600251; Gosling, Ryan,1980-actor.(CARDINAL)344978; Foy, Claire,1984-actor.(CARDINAL)787419; Clarke, Jason,1969-actor.(CARDINAL)543676; Stoll, Corey,1976-actor.(CARDINAL)599348; Hinds, Ciarán,1953-actor.(CARDINAL)357060; Abbott, Christopher,1986-actor.(CARDINAL)789935; Studio Distribution Services (Firm),distributor.;
Apollo 13: director of photography, Dean Cundey ; music by James Horner ; costume design by Todd Hallowell ; edited by Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill.First Man: director of photography, Linus Sandgren ; music by Justin Hurwitz ; edited by Tom Cross.The Right Stuff: director of photography, Caleb Deschanel ; music by Bill Conti.Apollo 13: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan.First Man: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Corey Stoll, Christopher Abbott, Ciarán Hinds.The Right Stuff: Charles Frank, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Lance Henriksen, Dennis Quaid, Sam Shepard, Fred Ward, Kim Stanley, Barbara Hershey, Veronica Cartwright, Pamela Reed.Apollo 13: It had been less than a year since man first walked on the moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight--until these words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded 206,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time--and the odds--to bring them home.First Man: Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral and intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective, based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost--on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues and the nation itself--of one of the most dangerous missions in history.The Right Stuff: Winner of four Academy Awards, Philip Kaufman's spectacular film of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff chronicles the story of the pioneering Mercury astronauts: men named Shepard, Grissom, Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, Cooper and Slayton, the first Americans to ride a primitive spacecraft solo into a new frontier. Preceding them in the history books was the legendary Chuck Yeager, who, far removed from the media spotlight that would focus on the "spacemen" a decade later, became the first man to break the sound barrier piloting the fabled X-1.Apollo 13: MPAA rated PGFirst Man: MPAA rated PG-13The Right Stuff: MPAA rated PGDVD ; region 1, NTSC ; Dolby Digital 5.1 ; Dolby Digital 2.0 ; DVS 2.0 ; surround sound ; widescreen (2.35:1) ; widescreen ( 2.39:1).
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Lovell, Jim; Haise, Fred, 1933-; Swigert, John L. (John Leonard), 1931-1982; Mattingly, T. Ken (Thomas Ken); Kranz, Gene; Grissom, Virgil I.; Cooper, Gordon, 1927-2004; Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993; Glenn, John, 1921-2016; Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998; Schirra, Wally; Carpenter, M. Scott (Malcolm Scott), 1925-2013; Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012; Apollo 13 (Spacecraft); Project Mercury (U.S.); Project Gemini (U.S.); Apollo 11 (Spacecraft); Astronauts; Manned space flight; Space flight to the moon;
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