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	Deke Slayton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Slayton was born on a farm near Sparta, Wisconsin.
		Slayton was scheduled to fly in 1962 on the second orbital flight (to have been named Delta-7), but due to an erratic heart rate (idiopathic atrial fibrillation), he was grounded, and his place was taken by Scott Carpenter.
		Slayton was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1996.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deke_Slayton (529 words)

	Today in Technology History - June 13
		Donald Kent Slayton was born in Wisconsin in 1924.
		Slayton then became a test pilot, and in 1959, NASA picked him to be one of its original seven astronauts, the "Mercury 7." Slayton would have been the fourth American to go into space, but NASA took him off the active astronaut rolls after discovering a minor heart problem.
		Slayton, who was the docking pilot for the historic mission, was so gung-ho that he boned up on Russian and even visited the Soviet Union before the mission.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/jun13.htm (381 words)

	Slayton
		Slayton was finally restored to flight status in 1972 and finally made it into space on July 17, 1975 as a crew member on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
		Slayton then retired from NASA and went into a series of space-related positions, finally as President of Space Services, Incorporated, which was developing the low cost Conestoga booster for launch of commercial space payloads.
		Slayton acknowledged that this objective was not identical with ASPO's requirement for thermal and vacuum verification of integrated system design, but felt that it was of equal importance and should be given equal priority in planning the test.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/slayton.htm (6158 words)

	The New Mexico Museum of Space History - Inductee - Donald K. Slayton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Donald "Deke" Slayton was born on March 1, 1924, in Sparta, Wisconsin.
		Slayton entered the Air Force as an aviation cadet and received his wings in April 1943 after completing flight training at Vernon and Waco, Texas.
		Slayton was named as one of the Mercury astronauts in April 1959.
	www.spacefame.org /slayton.html (522 words)

	Slayton, Donald Kent (“Deke”) (1924-1993)
		Slayton received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1949, joined the Air Force in 1942, and received his wings a year later.
		After being selected by NASA, Slayton was assigned to fly the second Mercury orbital mission, but was grounded by an irregular heartbeat.
		For the next two years, Slayton was manager of the Space Shuttle approach and landing tests at Edwards.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Slayton.html (334 words)

	40th Anniversary of Mercury 7: Donald K. "Deke" Slayton
		Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (Major, USAF, Ret.) was born on March 1, 1924, in Sparta, Wisconsin, to parents Charles Sherman and Victoria Adelia (Larson) Slayton.
		Slayton served as a B-25 instructor pilot for a year following the end of World War II, and in 1946 he was discharged from the Air Force as a captain.
		Slayton retired from NASA on February 27, 1982, to become president and vice chairman of the board of Space Services Incorporated, a Houston-based private space firm that successfully launched it's Conestoga rocket in 1983 and subsequently offered to send human ashes into permanent orbital repose.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/40thmerc7/slayton.htm (1755 words)

	Astronaut Scholarship Foundation: Donald K. (Deke) Slayton
		Donald K. (Deke) Slayton was one of America's original Mercury Seven astronauts.
		Slayton was selected by NASA as one of the United States' seven original astronauts in 1959.
		Slayton died of cancer at his home in League City, Tex., on June 13, 1993, at the age of 69.
	www.astronautscholarship.org /slayton.html (417 words)

	OSB Bulletin Magazine - May 2004
		On March 15, 2004, the disciplinary board approved a stipulation for discipline reprimanding Eugene lawyer Donald R. Slayton for violating DR 1-102(A)(4) (engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice).
		Approximately six weeks later, Slayton and his staff prepared a number of motions for issuance of bench warrants in several judgment collection cases, including the Church case, where he mistakenly signed and filed a motion and affidavit seeking Church’s arrest for failing to appear at the show cause hearing.
		Slayton signed and filed the motion for issuance of bench warrant and affidavit in error.
	www.osbar.org /publications/bulletin/04may/discipline.html (1420 words)

	Biographies \| Donald K. Slayton
		Slayton became Coordinator of Astronaut Activities in September 1962 and was responsible for the operation of the astronaut office.
		Slayton was restored to full flight status and certified eligible for manned space flights in March 1972, following a comprehensive review of his medical status by NASA's Director of Life Sciences and the Federal Aviation Agency.
		Slayton made his first space flight as Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission, July 15-24, 1975, a joint space flight culminating in the first historical meeting in space between American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/astp/slayton.html (876 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Apollo Missions - Astronaut Selection and Training
		Alan Shepherd and Donald Slayton were both removed from flight duties due to physical health problems, John Glenn resigned from NASA to take up a political career and Scott Carpenter resigned to carry out underwater research with the US Navy in Sealab.
		Slayton was appointed head of the astronaut office and later in 1963, Assistant Director of Flight Crew Operations.
		Slayton considered all astronauts to be equally capable of flying any mission, although each astronaut was assigned to specialise in different aspects of the flights which made some more suitable for certain missions.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A1109882 (1559 words)

	Donald K. "Deke" Slayton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is one of America’s original seven astronauts.
		Slayton left the Army Air Force in 1946, entered the University of Minnesota, and graduated in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering.
		Slayton then became NASA’s first Chief of the Astronaut Office and resigned his USAF commission in 1963 to assume the role of Director of Flight Crew Operations.
	www.au.af.mil /au/goe/eaglebios/88bios/slayto88.htm (527 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was born on March 1st, 1924 on a farm in Sparta, Wisconsin.
		To alleviate this confusion, Slayton became "DK" and then eventually "Deke." His son, Kent Sherman was born at Edwards in 1957.
		Slayton, along with Tom Stafford and Vance Brand, were picked as the primary crew for the U.S. on this project.
	www.nationalaviation.org /website/index.asp?webpageid={F3401AC2-408C-42A7-AD0F-CDDC7942F110}&eID=417 (1369 words)

	slayton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On July 20 Bobbie Slayton received a letter in the mail dated June 28, 1993 from the FAA to Donald K. Slayton, notifying him that he was being cited for violating FFA regulations.
		Bobbie Slayton remarked that the reason for the delay Deke took before getting into the air in his racing plane was that, "he probably took six hours to find Gus (Gus Grissom, his best friend, and who died in the Apollo 1 fire on Pad 34 at Cape Canaveral) to prop the plane for him."
		Slayton on June 28 to Martin Caidin, and is a joint effort with Loyd Auerbach, Office of Paranormal Investigations and FATE Magazine.
	www.319thbombgroup.com /slayton.htm (364 words)

	Space Medicine In Project Mercury, CH10-2
		Although it had been announced on November 29, 1961, that Donald Slayton would be the prime astronaut for the second U.S. manned orbital mission, on March 16, 1962, NASA announced that he would be replaced by M. Scott Carpenter, alternate pilot in the Glenn mission.
		The principal conclusion of the examinations is that the hazards from the arrhythmia of Slayton's heart, under the particularly stressful circumstances of current manned space flight operations, are too great to recommend that he should make a one-manned solo space Right.
		The examinations of Slayton's heart condition included those by members of the Manned Spacecraft Center Medical Staff under a variety of circumstances, two groups of heart specialists convened by the Air Force and a detailed examination by Dr. Paul Dudley White, eminent cardiologist of Boston, Massachusetts.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4003/ch10-2.htm (645 words)

	Early Astronauts
		Each flew in Project Mercury except Slayton, who was grounded with a previously undiscovered heart condition.
		After doctors certified that the condition had cleared up, Slayton realized his ambition to fly in space 16 years after his selection.
		He was a member of the American crew of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in July 1975, the world's first international manned space flight.
	www.solarviews.com /eng/astronts.htm (570 words)

	Amazon.com: Deke! : An Autobiography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Slayton gives us his no-nonsense explanation and perspective of the program while not over-burdening us with details that are found numerous times over in other accounts (like his co-authorship with Alan Shepard for "Moonshot")...
		Deke Slayton served as a NASA astronaut during Projects Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), and while he was originally scheduled to pilot the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission he was relieved of this assignment due to a mild, occasional, irregular heart palpitation discovered in August 1959.
		Instead of flying, Slayton became the titular head of the astronauts, officially being named Coordinator of Astronaut Activities in September 1962, and was responsible for the operation of the astronaut office.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/031285918X?v=glance (2501 words)

	Untitled
		Deke Slayton was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts announced in April 1959.
		Slayton was born on March 1, 1924, in Sparta, Wisconsin, to parents Charles Sherman and Victoria Adelia (Larson) Slayton.
		Deke Slayton was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 11, 1990.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/17281/98272 (1535 words)

	BookBag@theLogBook.com: Deke! - U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To The Shuttle
		Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, as you may recall, was the one member of the original Mercury seven who was shackled to the Earth by a recurring heart condition.
		is among the most personal, as Slayton takes time out from his reminiscences of the space program to detail what was going on in his personal life - the end of his first marriage, the beginning of his second, his relationship with his son.
		Many guests, including Donald Slayton Jr., make their thoughts heard in "other voices" sidebars throughout the book (though the placement and relevance of these sidebars are sometimes mysterious).
	www.thelogbook.com /read/q4-01/deke.htm (328 words)

	Of Moon Shots and Ghost Astronauts
		Slayton, during his life, was a crew member of the 1975 US-USSR Apollo-Soyuz mission, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, former test pilot with the USAF, and an avid racing plane pilot.
		On July 20, Bobbie Slayton received a letter in the mail dated June 28, 1993, from the FAA to Donald K. Slayton, notifying him that he was being cited for violating FAA regulations.
		However, to save weight, the plane Slayton flew has no electrical starter, and the engine can be started only by a person outside the plane, who swings the propeller while the pilot works the controls inside.
	www.mindreader.com /opi/moon.htm (694 words)

	Donald Slayton
		Donald "Deke" Slayton was an American astronaut who was born on March 1, 1924, in Wisconsin.
		Before he became an astronaut, Slayton was a fighter pilot in World War II.
		In 1975, Slayton flew aboard the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
	www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/slayton.html (133 words)

	"A GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND"
		Slayton activates tiny jet air nozzles in control box near his right hand to make the simulator rotate or tilt.
		His fiber glass contour couch is mounted on top of the simulator which rest on cushion of air rather than metal bearings to diminish friction.
		Large lens like one under Slayton's feet (far left) will be connected with periscope in the capsule to show him the capsule's attitude in relation to the earth.
	www.life.com /Life/space/giantleap/sec3/slayton1.html (342 words)

	Slayton, Donald Kent -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		More results on "Slayton, Donald Kent" when you join.
		U.S. physicist Donald Arthur Glaser was born in Cleveland, Ohio.
		He won the 1960 Nobel prize in physics for his invention of the bubble chamber (in 1952), which traced the movement of high-energy atomic particles and was used to observe the behavior of subatomic particles.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9336685 (641 words)

	The UCL Cosmic Dust Lab
		Walter Schirra, Donald Slayton, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter.
		Donald Slayton was the only Mercury astronaut not to fly in a Mercury spacecraft, having been withdrawn from the flightlist for medical reasons.
		However, over a decade later he was selected to fly on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project where he shook hands with Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in orbit.
	www.chem.ucl.ac.uk /cosmicdust/l.html (168 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Deke!: An Autobiography: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Slayton's time at NASA stretched from the early Mercury days through the heady Apollo missions right up to the commercial space shuttle flights, so a comprehensive insight into pretty much all the US manned space flight programme is provided.
		Deke is the autobiography of Deke Slayton, one time grounded astronaut and the man who constructed the crews that enabled Kennedy's challenge to be fulfilled.
		For an Apollo enthusiast like myself, the opening chapters (about Deke's early life) were hard work but the book comes to life when Deke tells the story of his role in Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/031285918X (846 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95018396 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deke Slayton was one of the first seven Mercury astronauts--and he might have been the first American in space.
		It was Deke Slayton who made Neil Armstrong the first man on the moon.
		is Deke Slayton's' story--told in his own words and in the voices of the men and women who worked with him and knew him best.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hol055/95018396.html (187 words)

	Mercury Seven
		The original group of seven American astronauts selected on April 9, 1959, for the Mercury Project.
		It included Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton.
		The top age for candidate Mercury astronauts was set at 40, the maximum height at 5ft 11in (1.80 m), and the maximum weight at 180 lb (81.6 kg).
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Mercury_Seven.html (341 words)

	Space Mission Patches - Apollo 1 Patch
		By January 1967, there was some doubt that the flight would in fact be designated as Apollo 1 (officially it was being called Apollo 204).
		So on January 20, 1967 George Low sent a letter to Deke Slayton withdrawing approval for the patch, and indicating that once the mission designation was firmly settled the patch might need to be revised.
		Unlike all other Apollo patches, there was no beta cloth version; Beta cloth patches were instituted in consequence of the fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew.
	genedorr.com /patches/Apollo/Ap01.html (688 words)

	Astronaut and Cosmonaut Medical Histories
		Later examined by cardiologists Eugene Braunwald [Slayton 112] and Paul Dudley White [Slayton 115].
		Slayton thinks vitamins cured his afib [Slayton 265, 275].
		Slayton thinks his 91 year old Aunt Sadie could have flown ASTP [Slayton, p.
	www.doctorzebra.com /drz/s_medhx.html (8022 words)

	NASAexplores 9-12 Lesson: Do You Have The Right Stuff? (Student Sheets)
		Deke Slayton was grounded because of medical reasons (heart fibrillation), but flew 16 years later representing the United States on board Apollo (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project).
		The Project Mercury astronauts’ selection was announced on April 9, 1959, only 6 months after the NASA was formally established on October 1, 1958.
		They are (front row, left to right) Walter H. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter; back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper.
	www.nasaexplores.com /show_912_student_st.php?id=030107172313 (481 words)

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