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Donald Kent Slayton, nado en Sparta o 1 de marzo de 1924 e finado en League City o 13 de xuño de 1993, máis coñecido como Deke Slayton, foi un piloto estadounidense da segunda guerra mundial, enxeñeiro aeronáutico e piloto de probas.. Traxectoria. En 1959 foi seleccionado pola NASA como un dos sete astronautas orixinais do Proxecto Mercury, do que sería apartado en 1962 debido a ...
14 de jun. de 1993 · He was 69. The cause of death was brain cancer, said Howard Benedict, executive director of the Mercury Seven Foundation. Of the first astronauts, Mr. Slayton, known to everyone as Deke, made 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.
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 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.
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.
Deke Slayton Airfest, La Crosse, Wisconsin. 1,702 likes · 19 talking about this · 556 were here. Join us for Deke Slayton Airfest to be held at the La Crosse Regional Airport.
