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.

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 ).

Although pilots comprised the Original Nineteen ( unlike the fourth and sixth groups, which included only scientists ), Deke Slayton assigned Lind to science-related tasks due to his doctorate.

Astronaut Donald K. " Deke " Slayton is also listed as an author, although he died before the project was completed and was an author in name only.

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.

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.

* Deke Slayton-Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton ; selected as one of the first Mercury Seven Astronauts.

With the other Mercury astronauts, Slayton was awarded the Collier Trophy in 1962 for " pioneering manned spaceflight in the USA ".

The Slayton biographical exhibit includes his Mercury space suit, his Ambassador of Exploration Award, which showcases a lunar sample, and more.

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

* Deke Slayton, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts

Despite the extensive medical evaluation, two of the seven ( Shepard and Slayton ) were soon grounded for undiagnosed medical conditions and sat out the entirety of Project Gemini and most of the Apollo program ( and Mercury as well, in Slayton's case ) supervising the active astronauts.

Six of the original seven Mercury astronauts attended Space Mountain's opening — Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Sen. John Glenn, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.

While Slayton, one of the Mercury Seven, had been grounded due to suspected heart problems, the film put him into space as the pilot of the rescue ship.

In the fall of 1968 Slayton offered command of the first landing to Borman, who turned it down, choosing to retire instead.

Slayton then offered the position to McDivitt, who also refused .< ref >

In all, the astronauts who trained at the planetarium were Buzz Aldrin, Joseph P. Allen, William A. Anders, Neil A. Armstrong, Charles A. Bassett II, Alan L. Bean, Frank Borman, Vance D. Brand, John S. Bull, M. Scott Carpenter, Gerald P. Carr, Eugene A. Cernan, Roger B. Chaffee, Philip K. Chapman, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad Jr., L. Gordon Cooper, R. Walter Cunningham, Charles M. Duke Jr., Donn F. Eisele, Anthony W. England, Joe H. Engle, Ronald E. Evans, Theodore C. Freeman, Edward G. Givens Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Fred W. Haise Jr., Karl G. Henize, James B. Irwin, Joseph P. Kerwin, William B. Lenoir, Don L. Lind, John A. Llewellyn, Jack R. Lousma, James A. Lovell Jr., Thomas K. Mattingly Jr., Bruce McCandless II, James A. McDivitt, F. Curtis Michel, Edgar D. Mitchell, Story Musgrave, Brian T. O ’ Leary, Robert A. Parker, William R. Pogue, Stuart A. Roosa, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott, Elliot See, Alan B. Shepard Jr., Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford, John L. Swigert Jr., William E. Thornton, Paul J. Weitz, Edward H. White, Clifton C. Williams Jr., Alfred M. Worden, and John W. Young.

" caretaker commander " who would be replaced by Deke Slayton once the latter received medical clearance, and due to Eisele's involvement in an extramarital affair with a woman who would later become his second wife.

Walt Disney Pictures searched for 3 years with no luck until they found a video game collector in Slayton, Minnesota who rented his stand up Discs of Tron game to Walt Disney Pictures.

David Janssen, who was a pilot himself, was selected in part due to his resemblance to Slayton.

The pilot of the Nestor, Paul Stein, suddenly sees an apparition of his older brother Kevin ( one of the crew of the ill-fated Slayton ), who explains that they are all dead and disappears.

Just before the sleep period, Deke Slayton, who was effectively the astronauts ' boss, radioed the crew and told them to take a Seconal sedative.

Two of Richard's teenaged neighbors, Heather ( Natasha Slayton ) and Rebecca ( Najarra Townsend ), develop a playful relationship with a much older neighbor Andrew ( Brad William Henke ) who works in the shoe store with Richard.