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2 unusual facts about Spring Mill State Park


Spring Mill State Park

The memorial features the spacecraft from Grissom's Gemini 3 space flight, nicknamed by Grissom the "Molly Brown" (after the play The Unsinkable Molly Brown), as well as a short video about the life of Grissom, and artifacts such as a space suit, helmet, and many personal effects.

The park was the subject of a Rescue 911 segment that aired on October 17, 1989 about a man that became trapped and was later rescued in Donaldson Cave.


Gemini 3

The spacecraft is on display within the Grissom Memorial of Spring Mill State Park, two miles east of Grissom's hometown of Mitchell, Indiana.


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