NASA announced the selection of seven of these – known as the Mercury Seven – as astronauts on 9 April 1959, though only six of the seven flew Mercury missions, after Slayton was grounded due to a heart condition.

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.

The first manager of the Columbia Association was John Estabrook Slayton ( d. 1967 ).

For Slayton's contributions to the early planning of Columbia, the community center in the Wilde Lake village, Slayton House, was named for him.

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.

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.

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

Called the " Murray County Pioneer ," the paper moved to Slayton when the county seat was relocated in 1889.

The city was named for Charles Slayton, its founder.

On April 22, 1867 the New York State Legislature incorporated Spencerport as a Village and William Slayton was elected as its first mayor.

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.

This occurred after Lissa Jackson Roche, his daughter-in-law, was found dead in Slayton Arboretum shortly after alleging that she and Roche had an affair.

In 1939, Slayton Arboretum was listed as one of Michigan's Points of Interest, and up to 700 people a day visited the site.

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

However Slayton was removed from all flight crew availability after the discovery of cardiac arrhythmia during a training run in the g-loading centrifuge.

The Breen costumes were problematic for the actors playing them, since they made both seeing and breathing difficult: there was only a single small hole in the beak, about eight inches from the actor's nose, according to stand-in and stunt double Todd Slayton, who played Thot Gor.

He confronted them and they told him what they'd done and why, and it was then that Slayton took them off the back-up crew of Apollo 17 and effectively ended their careers as astronauts.

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.

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.

After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U. S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by a heart murmur.

Slayton married Marjorie Lunney in 1955 and their son, Kent Sherman, was born April 8, 1957.

Bobbie Belle Jones Slayton born on Jan. 3, 1945

Weber was born in Slayton, Minnesota.

Bobby Slayton ( born May 25, 1955 ) is an American stand-up comedian known as " The Pit Bull of Comedy " and Yid Vicious.

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

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.

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 ).

As well as Slayton's own astronaut experiences, the book describes how Slayton made crew choice selections, including choosing the first person to walk on the moon.

The Texas Oncology-Clear Lake Deke Slayton Cancer Center ( located on Medical Center Blvd.

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

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.

* Moon Shot, a 1994 book on the US and Soviet space program by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton

In 2007, she appeared as Dr. Hillary Slayton in the children's television series, Dinosapien, which is filmed on location in southern Alberta, Canada.

Subdivision plats in Chattanooga suggest that Slayton developed some areas to facilitate the hauling of materials from quarries in northeastern Alabama, and Slayton Street and Slayton Avenue are found near the current public library location on Broad Street.

In 1975, Slayton was medically cleared, and made his only space flight on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which may have been partially inspired by Marooned.

A commercial transport vessel on a routine mission is suddenly forced out of hyperspace into a black and starless void, where they discover an abandoned ship — the Slayton — which disappeared ten years ago.

The crew release the " ghosts " and escape themselves by turning the engines of the Nestor and the Slayton on the dark matter.

Slayton, a native of Scarsdale, New York, is probably best known for a supporting role in the 2001 film Bandits, and as a frequent guest on The Adam Carolla Show.

He did not intend to give astronauts two lunar landing commands but, according to historian Michael Cassutt, as late as the summer of 1969 — when 10 landings were still scheduled — Slayton planned to give Lunar Module Pilots Fred Haise, Edgar Mitchell, and James Irwin the opportunity to walk again on the Moon as Commanders.

The Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum in Sparta, Wisconsin was named in his honor.