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Donald K. Slayton

Born

in Sparta, Wisconsin, The United States

March 01, 1924

Died

June 13, 1993

Genre

Science

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Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) was one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts.[1] After initially being grounded by a heart murmur, he served as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, making him responsible for crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972. At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly as the docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. At the age of 51, he became the oldest person to fly into space. This record was surpassed decades later by his NASA classmate John Glenn, at the age of 77, on STS-95. ...more

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	Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard, Donald K. Slayton, Neil Armstrong (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 3,968 ratings — published 1994	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury To the Shuttle by Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt 4.04 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 1994 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Seven: By the Astronauts Themselves by Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John Glenn 4.10 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 1962 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deke!: Us Manned Space from Mercury to the Shuttle by Donald K. Slayton, Michael Cassutt, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Seven by M. Scott/Cooper Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“1993. It”
― Donald K. Slayton, Deke!: From Mercury To the Shuttle

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“He’d had his own book published, Across the High Frontier—the one years before The Right Stuff or Yeager!—so he wasn’t shy when it came to publicity.”
― Donald K. Slayton, Deke!: From Mercury To the Shuttle

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