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 ...

Richard (Dick) Keith Slayton, age 92 of Oro Valley ... Dick was passionate about his brother Deke’s legacy as an Air Force pilot / NASA astronaut, and he established several scholarships ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...

Deke Slayton, then chief of the astronaut office, knew they would need timepieces certified to be able to withstand extreme conditions. Ragan, then a young engineer at NASA, wrote the specification.

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 ...

NASA announced its selection of the United States’ first seven astronauts, dubbed the Mercury Seven. Out of 110 candidates, the seven chosen were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus ...

“It’s a hard thing to learn,” wrote astronaut Deke Slayton in his memoir ... exploded shortly after launch. NASA instead decided to fly Gemini 6 in tandem with Gemini 7, using the latter ...

"It's a hard thing to learn," wrote astronaut Deke Slayton in his memoir, Deke, "since it's kind of backward from anything ... The mission's Agena-D target spacecraft, intended for launch ahead of the ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped peanut. The space agency released the images Monday ...

(NASA Image) BREVARD COUNTY ... completing 22 orbits around the Earth. – Deke Slayton was grounded due to a medical condition but later flew in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.