« Odpowiedź #3 dnia: Marca 04, 2025, 23:59 »
Miał zostać drugim Amerykaninem na orbicie.
Zmarł jako piąty amerykański astronauta z przyczyn naturalnych.
Wtedy było już 8. uczestników amerykańskich lotów kosmicznych, którzy zginęli w tragicznych okolicznościach.
Donald Slayton Dies at 69; Was One of First AstronautsBy John Noble Wilford June 14, 1993
Donald K. Slayton, one of the original seven American astronauts and an influential manager in the space agency, died yesterday at his home in League City, Tex., near the Johnson Space Center in suburban Houston. He was 69. The cause of death was brain cancer, said Howard Benedict, executive director of the Mercury Seven Foundation.
Of the first astronauts, Mr. Slayton, known to everyone as Deke, made the least immediate impression on a public that for a time could not read or hear or see enough of these newly minted space celebrities. In part this was because a heart problem kept him out of space for years. But he was also naturally laconic and presented a stern-faced image in public to mask his impatience with just about anything that did not involve flying. (...)
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/14/obituaries/donald-slayton-dies-at-69-was-one-of-first-astronauts.html
60 and 50 Years Ago: Astronaut Slayton Grounded in 1962, Reinstated in 1972
John Uri Johnson Space Center Mar 14, 2022
Donald K. “Deke” Slayton, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts that NASA selected in April 1959, lost his chance to become the second American to orbit the Earth when doctors noted he had a slight heart irregularity. Grounded from flying in space, Slayton instead turned to lead NASA’s team of astronauts for the next 10 years. After rigorous medical examinations, flight surgeons cleared Slayton for spaceflight in March 1972. The following year NASA assigned Slayton to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first joint mission between the United States and the Soviet Union. After waiting 16 years for his spaceflight, Slayton spent nine days in orbit in July 1975. He later managed the space shuttle Approach and Landing Test and the Orbital Flight Test programs before retiring from NASA in 1982. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/former-astronauts/60-and-50-years-ago-astronaut-slayton-grounded-in-1962-reinstated-in-1972/
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