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Hace 2 días · NASA's director of flight crew operations during the Apollo program was Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts who was medically grounded in September 1962 due to a heart murmur. Slayton was responsible for making all Gemini and Apollo crew assignments.
22 de may. de 2024 · Donald K. "Deke" Slayton flew B-25s with the 340th Bombardment Group in Europe during World War II. After 56 combat missions he returned to the United States in 1944 as an instructor. In April 1945, he was sent to Okinawa with the 319th Bomb Group and flew seven combat missions over Japan.
20 de may. de 2024 · Another transducer in the sustainer control circuit indicated that pressure had remained at proper levels so the switch did not actuate until the normal time after SECO. Astronaut Scott Carpenter walks to the launch site to begin the Mercury-Atlas 7 (MA-7) mission on May 24, 1962. Carpenter’s Aurora 7 capsule lifted off aboard an Atlas rocket ...
Hace 3 días · Deke Slayton was grounded in 1962 due to a heart condition, but remained with NASA and was appointed senior manager of the Astronaut Office and later additionally assistant director of Flight Crew Operations at the beginning of Project Gemini.
Hace 3 días · Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton selected the first Apollo crew in January 1966, with Grissom as Command Pilot, White as Senior Pilot, and rookie Donn F. Eisele as Pilot. But Eisele dislocated his shoulder twice aboard the KC-135 weightlessness training aircraft, and had to undergo surgery on January 27.
28 de may. de 2024 · This perspective was confirmed by the individual in charge of NASA’s selection process, Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton, who had been named head of the astronaut office after being taken off active flight status.
13 de may. de 2024 · 1975: Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton portrait. He was the docking module pilot for the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission. In 1959, he was training in a centrifuge, and underwent an electrocardiogram; it was found that he had erratic heart activity.
