Virgil I. Grissom Junior High School 226, South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City Film and television Grissom has been noted and remembered in many film and television productions. Before he became widely known as an astronaut, the film Air Cadet (1951) starring Richard Long and Rock Hudson briefly featured Grissom early in the movie as a U.S. Air Force candidate for flight school at Randolph Field, San Antonio, Texas. Grissom was depicted by Fred Ward in the film The Right Stuff (1983) and (very briefly) in the film Apollo 13 (1995) by Steve Bernie. He was portrayed in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998) by Mark Rolston. Actor Kevin McCorkle played Grissom in the third-season finale of the NBC television show American Dreams. Bryan Cranston played Grissom as a variety-show guest in the film That Thing You Do! Actor Joel Johnstone portrays Gus Grissom in the 2015 ABC TV series The Astronaut Wives Club. In 2016 Gus Grissom was included in the narrative of the movie Hidden Figures. In 2018, he was portrayed by Shea Whigham in First Man. In 2020's Disney+ miniseries The Right Stuff, Grissom is portrayed by Michael Trotter. In the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Federation starship is named for Grissom. Another USS Grissom was featured in a 1990 episode of the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and was mentioned in a 1999 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The character Gil Grissom in the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and the character Virgil Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds are also named after the astronaut. NASA footage, including Grissom's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, was released in high definition on the Discovery Channel in June 2008 in the television series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions''. When Grissom died he was in the process of writing a book about Gemini. Notes References Further reading (For children.) (For children.) External links Letter from Grissom thanking students for naming their school after him Grissom's Gemini G3-C Pressure Suit, National Air and Space Museum Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 Pressure Suit , National Air and Space Museum "Gus Grissom Collection, 1960–1967, N.D.", at the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis "Gus Grissom Liberty Bell 7 Flight" (video), Sen Corporation, Ltd. Virgil (Gus) I. Grissom collection at the Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum,