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Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was one of NASA's first astronauts in the late 50s. After he was grounded from Project MercuryW in 1962 for medical reasons, he became NASA's first Chief of Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations. Deke remained Chief Astronaut till 1974 when he selected himself for the crew of Apollo 24 and was replaced temporarily by Buzz Aldrin. He died aboard the ...
Deke Slayton pictured in 1973. NASA photo. However, Slayton’s participation as an astronaut during Project Mercury was not to be. In 1962, an investigation was opened into incidences of an erratic heartbeat that had taken place during some centrifuge tests. As a result, Slayton was medically disqualified from spaceflight.
Astronaut Deke Slayton was to have been the second American in orbit. On March 16, 1962, it was announced that Slayton was grounded - due to a minor heart fibrillation known to NASA when they selected him to be an astronaut. Slayton's three orbit flight would have been called Delta 7.
21 de may. de 2023 · Deke Slayton at Kennedy Space Center, circa March 1979. Slayton also described the Reagan-era NASA Administrator James Beggs as “a real horse’s a–,” and didn’t like Hans Mark, then-head of human spaceflight, much more than Beggs.
Deke Slayton Airfest, La Crosse, Wisconsin. 1,710 likes · 73 talking about this · 556 were here. Join us for Deke Slayton Airfest to be held at the La Crosse Regional Airport.
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut.In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon, at age 47.. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Shepard saw action with the surface navy during World War II.
15 de jun. de 1995 · Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space. Instead, he became the first chief of American Astronaut Corps. It was Deke Slayton who selected the crews who flew the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab missions. It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon.
