Deke Slayton: [as Swigert is piloting the command module for docking] Come on rookie, park that thing! Dr. Chuck: Haise is running a temperature, and none of 'em have slept. Deke Slayton: I can't ...

However, Deke Slayton was dropped due to a heart problem, although he continued to contribute to the space program until 1975, when he finally flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission. The Mercury capsule ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

The “Mercury Seven” were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton. “To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of ...

As a months-long and sometimes contentious Oakland mayoral campaign ended Tuesday, voters in the special ...

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Partly sunny with a high of 80 degrees, low of 53 in Oklahoma City 📅 Today in History: In 1959, NASA announced its selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, dubbed the Mercury Seven.

New York Giants wide receiver Darius Slayton has switched from No. 86 to No. 18, joining Deonte Banks and Tyler Nubin as players with new jersey numbers. After surrendering his No. 3 to ...

Ragan. For the last two Mercury missions, the astronauts had worn their own watches. Deke Slayton, then chief of the astronaut office, knew they would need timepieces certified to be able to ...

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Project Mercury, America’s first human space program ... “It’s a hard thing to learn,” wrote astronaut Deke Slayton in his memoir, Deke, “since it’s kind of backward from anything ...