Grissom

Grissom is a surname, most notably associated with Virgil "Gus" Grissom, one of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts who died in the Apollo 1 fire in 1967.

The name gained wider recognition through Gil Grissom, the forensic entomologist character in the television series *CSI: Crime Scene Investigation*.

astronaut

Virgil

Classical epic poet

Molly Brown · NASA · spacecraft · launch · splashdown · rocket · Apollo · spaceflight · astronaut · space suit

CSI

Gil

Shortened masculine name

evidence · forensics · lab coat · Willows · Brown · CBS · procedural · bugs · insects · Sara

surname

genealogy

Study of family descent

lineage · descent · last name · identity · roots · American · origin

Opposites
space program allegiance

GrissomYuri Gagarin

First person in space

cosmonauts

fate in spaceflight

GrissomJohn Glenn

First American orbiter

Alan Shepard · Buzz Aldrin · Neil Armstrong · Michael Collins

Familiarity
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Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G