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Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, responsible for NASA crew ...
Donald Kent Slayton (1 de marzo de 1924 - 13 de junio de 1993), más conocido como Deke Slayton, fue un piloto estadounidense en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, más tarde, astronauta y director de la NASA.
14 de mar. de 2022 · A photograph of Slayton greeted the Expedition 45 crew when it opened the hatch to the spacecraft in December 2015. Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts that NASA selected in April 1959, lost his chance to become the second American to orbit.
27 de feb. de 2024 · Mr. Slayton made his first space flight as Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission—a joint space flight culminating in the first historical meeting in space between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts. Slayton retired from NASA in 1982. Quick Facts.
Slayton logged 217 hours, 28 minutes, and 24 seconds during his only spaceflight. From December 1975 to November 1977, he served as manager for the Approach and Landing Test series at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards.
Deke was assigned to the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first international docking mission between the US and the former USSR (Russia). In his mid-fifties, Deke joked about being “the oldest rookie” ever to go into space.
30 de ene. de 2014 · Deke Slayton was selected for the Mercury program, but had to wait more than a decade to fly in space after concerns about an erratic heartbeat pulled him out of the flight rotation.
