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...
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Grissom, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra, and Donald Slayton. Explored in detail are the dangers and pitfalls that transpired during...
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Choctaw Bingo (redirect from Uncle Slayton)
same. The family members are... Uncle Slayton: The whole song revolves around Slayton and his lifestyle. Slayton is described as being too old to travel...
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Gubarev Soviet Union 77 Vance Brand United States 15 July 1975 ASTP Donald Slayton United States 79 Vitaly Zholobov Soviet Union 6 July 1976 Soyuz 21...
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Flight Director Chris Kraft, and the Director of Flight Crew Operations, Donald Slayton. They then flew to the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville...
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Barbree and Associated Press space writer Howard Benedict. Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project...
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Estonian javelin thrower Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924–1993), American astronaut Donald Spero (born 1939), world champion rower Donald Sterling (born 1934)...
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Flight Crew Operations during the Gemini and Apollo programs was Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, who was medically...
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Burgess 2011, pp. 303–310. Compton 1988, pp. 59–60. Gray, Tara. "Donald K. "Deke" Slayton". 40th Anniversary of Mercury 7. NASA. Retrieved October 6, 2016...
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Chichester: Springer-Praxis. ISBN 978-3-319-51012-5. OCLC 1023142024. Slayton, Donald K.; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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ACS ever since. 1976 – Astronauts Vance Brand, Thomas Stafford, and Donald Slayton of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 1982 – Alex Haley, author of Roots...
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Apollo–Soyuz (category Deke Slayton)
is in the public domain. Donald K. Slayton (1994). Deke!. Internet Archive. Forge. ISBN 978-0-312-85503-1. Slayton, Donald; Cassutt, Michael (1994)....
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Grissom, Virgil I.; Schirra, Walter M. Jr.; Shepard, Alan B. Jr.; Slayton, Donald K. (2010) [Originally published 1962]. We Seven: By the Astronauts...
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Kirbv of St. George's Episcopal Church. On October 17, 1987, astronaut Donald Slayton appeared at the mall for its 17th anniversary where he spoke to a crowd...
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The NASA Historical Series. Washington, D.C.: NASA. NASA SP-4009. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke" & Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From...
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The Right Stuff (film) (category Deke Slayton)
dream about it. Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Donald "Deke" Slayton, captains of the United States Air Force, are among the "pudknockers"...
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and Tony England". NASASpaceFlight.com. Retrieved April 17, 2011. Donald K. Slayton, Deke! (New York: Forge, 1994), 262 Wade, Mark. "Skylab 5". Astronautix...
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Days") Bobby Slayton (as himself; episode: "Politically Impolite") Brother's Keeper was produced by Axelrod-Widdoes Entertainment and Donald Todd Productions...
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Spaceflight. London: Praxis/Springer. ISBN 9781852332259. OCLC 829405673. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke" & Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From...
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American actor and director. He is perhaps best known for playing Deke Slayton in the film The Right Stuff (1983). He has also acted in films including...
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Life in Mission Control. New York: Dutton. ISBN 978-0-525-94571-0. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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in the Tom Hanks–produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon as Deke Slayton, and directed Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, a...
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Grissom, Virgil I.; Schirra, Walter M. Jr.; Shepard, Alan B. Jr.; Slayton, Donald K. (2010) [Originally published 1962]. We Seven: By the Astronauts...
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Died Reaching for the Moon. Bibson Books. ISBN 978-0-8032-6212-6. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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would appear as one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, in the Disney+ television series The Right Stuff. He is known...
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London: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7434-5067-6. OCLC 939660317. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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Beat Russia to the Moon. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-49253-9. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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of the group to fly in space. Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton had planned to hire 20 to 30 new scientist-astronauts, but NASA found that...
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Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved June 10, 2012. Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"; Cassutt, Michael (1994). Deke! U.S. Manned Space: From Mercury...
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Warren J. North and Mercury Seven astronauts Alan B. Shepard and Donald K. Slayton. The names of the six successful candidates were publicly announced...
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