* Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton, USAF ( 1924 – 1993 ); grounded in 1962, but reinstated in 1972 and flew on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.

Donald Kent Slayton ( March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993 ), better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and a NASA administrator.

* Donald Kent ( Deke ) Slayton, USAF, ( 1924 – 1993 )

* 1924 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut ( d. 1993 )

Astronauts Alan Shepard, who was the first American in space, and Deke Slayton later wrote of how the sight of Sputnik I passing overhead inspired them to their new careers.

** Deke Slayton, American astronaut ( b. 1924 )

* March 1 – Deke Slayton, American astronaut ( d. 1993 )

Chief astronaut Deke Slayton wrote that he wanted one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to be the first on the moon and, " Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded.

According to chief astronaut Deke Slayton's autobiography, Slayton did not assign See to Gemini 8 because he did not consider him physically capable of performing an extra-vehicular activity.

* Moon Shot ( with Deke Slayton, Jay Barbree, and Howard Benedict ) ( 1994 )

Komarov was selected as back up for Pavel Popovich ( Vostok 4 ), but subsequent routine ECG testing of Komarov revealed a heart irregularity and he was pulled from the program and replaced by Boris Volynov The same heart irregularity grounded American Astronaut Deke Slayton.

Apollo-Soyuz crew: From left to right: Deke Slayton | Donald " Deke " Slayton, Thomas Patten Stafford, Vance Brand, Alexey Leonov, and Valeri Kubasov.

He was at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas on October 14 when Deke Slayton called and asked if he was still interested in becoming an astronaut.

Deke Slayton had decided that the CMP should have some spaceflight experience, something that Anders did not have.

It was during the training for Apollo 11 that Collins told Deke Slayton that he did not want to fly again.

Deke Slayton ’ s practice in assigning crews was to assign a back-up crew as prime crew for the third mission after that crew ’ s back-up mission.

The only major incident during the orbital phase involved a contraband corned beef sandwich that Young had snuck on board ( though Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton wrote in his autobiography that he gave Young permission to do so ).

The original prime crew for Mercury Atlas-7 was to have been Deke Slayton, with Schirra as his back-up.

* Deke Slayton Museum

978-0-312-85918-3 ), Deke Slayton, Chief of the Astronaut Corps, felt Scott, Worden and Irwin had embarrassed NASA and the Apollo program by trying to profit in such way from the hard work that had gone into the Apollo 15 mission, and violated NASA rules.

When Deke Slayton was withdrawn on medical grounds from Project Mercury's second manned orbital flight ( to be titled Delta 7 ), Carpenter was assigned to replace him.

Pike Bishop remembers his betrayals, most notably when he deserts Deke Thornton ( in flashback ) when the law catches up to them ; and when he abandons Crazy Lee at the bank after the robbery ( ostensibly to guard the hostages ).

Delta Kappa Epsilon ( ΔΚΕ ; also pronounced D-K-E or " Deke ") is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class part of whom hadn't been invited to join the two existing societies ( Alpha Delta Phi and Psi Upsilon ) among others who had been invited to join.

The first issue was released in 1985, with a manifesto entitled " Don't Be Gay " published in the fanzine Maximum RocknRoll following soon after ; inspiring, among many other zines, Holy Titclamps, edited by Larry-bob, Homocore by Tom Jennings and Deke Nihilson, Donna Dresch's Chainsaw, and Outpunk by Matt Wobensmith, these last two later functioning as music labels.

According to Engle, Deke Slayton asked him whether he would prefer to fly on Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz, or the Space Shuttle ; Engle responded that he would prefer the Shuttle as it was an airplane.

Other crewmen on this nine-day Earth-orbital mission were Thomas Stafford, Apollo commander, Deke Slayton, Apollo docking module pilot ; cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Soyuz commander ; and cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, Soyuz flight engineer.

# In the TV series, Deke is second-in-command to Hondo ; whereas in the film he is at the same level as the others.

* Calvin Levels as Deke ; this role had originally been given to Steve Buscemi

Others who appear on camera are Emile Berkoff ( Jim Fyfe ), a compulsive statistician with a crush on Alexandra ; Deke Conners ( Matt Malloy ), an EEast Village filmmaker hired to produce Tanner campaign ads ; and Andrea Spinelli ( Ilana Levine ), T. J .' s innocent and ditzy but well-meaning assistant.

* Dennis Rodman-Chief Warrant Officer Deacon " Deke " Reynolds ( former U. S. Army ; helicopter pilot, demolitions )

As well as featuring her drawings, it also includes posters and still frames from her films The Troublemakers, which features Caroline Azar and Bruce LaBruce ; The Yo-Yo Gang, which features Caroline Azar, Leslie Mah, Donna Dresch, Beverly Breckenridge, Deke Nihilson and Bruce LaBruce ; and The Lollipop Generation, featuring Jena von Brucker, Mark Ewert, Vaginal Davis and Mitchell Watkins.

* Deke Slayton ( 1924-1993 ), one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts

* Deke Slayton, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts

While he lived in San Francisco from 1988 until 1991, Jennings was the publisher and co-editor, with Deke Nihilson, of Homocore, one of the earliest Queercore zines.

Deke Richards, also known as Dennis Lussier and Deke Lussier, is a songwriter and record producer, one of many white musicians / songwriters who were affiliated with Motown.

The song, which peaked at # 3 on the R & B singles chart and # 10 on the pop singles chart in the beginning of 1972, was one of the Jackson 5 hits produced by The Corporation: Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards.

The player controls one of three mercenaries ( either Hana, Deke, or Glas ) and pilots them through areas filled with human and non-human enemies.

* Deke Kay-A fighting zombie who is one of the sub-bosses.

Sam Peckinpah's first two choices for the role of Deke Thornton were Richard Harris ( who had co-starred in Major Dundee ) and Brian Keith ( who had worked with Peckinpah on The Westerner ( 1960 ) and The Deadly Companions ( 1961 )).

Space journalist Andrew Chaikin claims that, following the death of Gus Grissom, Borman became astronaut chief Deke Slayton's choice to command the first Moon landing attempt.

Cartha " Deke " DeLoach's official version is that the FBI paid for its first big break in the case, which was the location of the bodies.

Stafford and Cernan became the first backup crew to fly in space since Scott Carpenter replaced Deke Slayton on MA-7.

Deke Arlon became her first manager, and Easton spent much of 1980 being followed by camera crews, who filmed her throughout the process of making her first EMI single, " Modern Girl ".

" Deke Slayton quipped as Alan Shepard's famous first flight launched, in reference to the astronaut parody.

This growth was fueled in part by the style change popularized in the early 1990s by groups like the Beelzebubs of Tufts University and the founding in 1990 of the The Contemporary A Cappella Society ( CASA ) by Deke Sharon and Rex Solomon which allowed for the first time, in a pre-internet age, interaction and collaboration of groups across the country.

The single was a notable first in many respects: it was the first Jackson 5 single to be released on Motown the first of four Jackson 5 number-ones released in a row ( the others being " ABC ", " The Love You Save ", and " I'll Be There "), and the first song written and produced by The Corporation, a team comprising Motown chief Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards.

CASA was cofounded in 1991 by Deke Sharon by incorporating the first a cappella directory, The List, founded in 1988 & distributed by Rex Solomon, into a subscription newsletter called The C. A. N.