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.

Slayton offered to get him back into the crew sequence after the flight, and according to Collins, this would probably have been as backup commander of Apollo 14 followed by commander of Apollo 17.

If Slayton had flown MA-7, his spacecraft would have been named Delta 7, as this would have been the fourth manned flight and Delta ( Δ ) is the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet.

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.

" 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.

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.

They later divorced and Slayton married Bobbie Slayton and they remained married until his death.

NASA chief astronaut Deke Slayton later speculated in his autobiography that the AMU may have been developed for MOL because the Air Force " thought they might have the chance to inspect somebody else's satellites.

Slayton lived in a stone house at 533 Barton Avenue, the house known for years by later inhabitants as the location of the " Little Art Shop.

During the early Apollo missions he used a rotation system of assigning a crew as backup and then, three missions later, as the prime crew ; however, by the later Apollo flights, this system was used less frequently as astronauts left the program, Slayton wanted to give rookies a chance, and astronauts did not want to take backup positions that no longer could lead to prime-crew spots.

Slayton further stated that he assigned See to Gemini 9 because he had become " sentimental " about getting him a flight.

The Slayton Jubilee Singers entertain employees of the Old Trusty Incubator Factory, Clay Center, about 1910

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.

The Slayton Jubilee Singers entertain employees of the Old Trusty Incubator Factory, Clay Center, Nebraska | Clay Center, about 1910

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In April 2010, Nicolas Slayton from Comics Bulletin ranked The Dark Knight Returns 2nd in their Tuesday Top Ten feature's Top 10 Overrated Comic Books, just behind Watchmen.

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

With the aid of the elected head of the world government, Slayton Ford, Lazarus hijacks the New Frontiers, a starship designed to travel to distant stars, and liberates the Howards.

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.

* Cal Slayton, comic book artist.

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

It is five minutes from Currie, Minnesota, fifteen minutes from Lake Shetek State Park, and it is twenty minutes northeast of Slayton, Minnesota.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

In the spring, it must have been, he began working on the play that he called The House, which later would be Mannerhouse.

it was demonstrated, many critics would later point out, in the length of his novels.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

A more complete list would also include Bradbury's `` The Pedestrian '' ( 1951 ), Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery ( 1955 ), David Karp's One ( 1953 ), Wilson Tucker's The Long Loud Silence ( 1952 ), Jack Vance's To Live Forever ( 1956 ), Gore Vidal's Messiah ( 1954 ), and Bernard Wolfe's Limbo ( 1952 ), as well as the three perhaps most outstanding dystopias, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth's The Space Merchants ( 1953 ), Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano ( 1952 ), and John Wyndham's Re-Birth ( 1953 ), works which we will later examine in detail.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Even though he would later be resurrected, he was at this moment dead indeed, the expression on his face reflecting what he had gone through on the cross.

Watson had nodded absently and muttered that he would check the lists himself later.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

We would attend a film and, later on, I stated, we might go to the Mayflower Coffee Shop or Child's or Toffenetti's for waffles.

Indeed, we should say, on the contrary, that the accident of our later discovery made no difference whatever to the badness of the animal's pain, that it would have been every whit as bad whether a chance passer-by happened later to discover the body and feel repugnance or not.

Unfortunately she returned later, just as I had taken advantage of the friendlier atmosphere in the room by stating that perhaps an unexpected result of the Cultural Exchange Program would be the re-emergence of Abstract Art in Russia, with Social Realism regaining dominance in the U.S..

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

Both figures would go higher in later years.

This might be done to arouse those who have been squeezed out by the trims to exert pressure on the Legislature, so it would be more receptive to a tax proposal later in the year.

It was about that time, a board member said later, that Dr. Thomas G. Pullen, Jr., State superintendent of schools, told Dr. Jenkins and a number of other education officials that he would not talk to them with a recording machine sitting in front of him.

The roar of Palmer's gallery as he sank a thrilling putt would roll out across the parklike landscape of Augusta, only to be answered moments later by the roar of Player's gallery for a similar triumph.

he would look right through you while you were talking to him, and if you said, `` For Christ's sake, Donald, you've got Prussian blue all over your shirt '', he would smile, and nod, and an hour later the paint would be all over his pants as well.

A half hour later he got her up to go out for breakfast so the Ferraros, hearing them hurrying down the stairs, would think they were going to a late mass.