Everything you never knew you wanted to know about the Mercury Project
Deke Slayton
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Deke Slayton was the only one of the Mercury 7 astronauts not to fly in space during Project Mercury. He was born on 1 March 1924 in Sparta Wisconsin, and died of complications of a brain tumor on 13 June 1993.
Mercury Mission
Slayton was the original astronaut assigned to the MA-7 mission. He never flew because the flight doctors diagnosed a condition called atrial fibrillation.
His place on the MA-7 mission was taken over by Scott Carpenter.
He later stated that he would have named his spacecraft Delta 7.
Slayton served as the head of the astronaut office through the Gemini and Apollo programs and was responsible for crew selection. He later flew on the Apollo-Soyuz test project.
Technical Reponsibilities During Project Mercury
Slayton concentrated on the Atlas booster.
Biography
Deke!: U.S. Manned Space : From Mercury to the Shuttle by Donald K. Slayton, and Michael Cassutt
ISBN 0312855036 Hardcover Edition
ISBN 031285918X Paperback Edition
