Air Cadet (film)
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Air Cadet is a 1951 American drama war film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Stephen McNally, Gail Russell, Alex Nicol and Richard Long. Air Cadet featured United States Air Force pilots in trai
Film poster by Reynold Brown
Gus Grissom
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Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom was an American astronaut, and one of the original Mercury Seven selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Project Mercury, a program to train and lau
Air Cadet (film)
…training along with actors mixed into the training courses. The film had a small early role for 26-year-old Rock Hudson and a scene with future astronaut Gus Grissom. Walt Carver, Russ Coulter, Jerry Connell and former U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Czanoczek join a group of cadets beginning Air Force pilot training. Each of…
Grissom in 1964
Grissom in the United States Air Force
Grissom (far left) with fellow Project Mercury astronauts and a model of the Atlas rocket, July 12, 1962
Grissom in front of the Liberty Bell 7 spacecraft