Astronaut Gus Grissom Home and Memorials (Mitchell, Indiana)

This is a segment I filmed in Mitchell, Indiana in June 2018. A reflective visit to the Gus Grissom Boyhood Home in Mitchell, Indiana, the Gus Grissom Memorial on 6th Street, and the Gus Grissom Memorial, just inside Spring Mill State Park.

Gus Grissom was very much like most of us, with humble beginnings, low paying dead-end jobs, and so many roadblocks. And yet, he became a decorated fighter pilot, test pilot, flight instructor, space capsule design consultant, and the first human to ever go into space twice. His life teaches us so many lessons.

(F86 picture courtesy of Paul Maritz, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. All other stills are from NASA and without copyright restrictions)