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- June 28, 1993: Died:Donald ("Deke") Kent Slayton
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jun. 28, 1993 Fatherhood
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. DONALD ("Deke") KENT SLAYTON, 69, one of the original
- Mercury 7 astronauts; of brain cancer; in League City, Texas.
- The Wisconsin native and Korean War-era test pilot was one of
- the pleiad of handsome, heavily promoted aviators scheduled
- for solo journeys in the series of Mercury space flights, the
- first stage in the U.S. space program. Yet in 1962, just before
- he was scheduled to become the second American in orbit, doctors
- discovered a heart murmur, and Slayton was grounded. But by
- July 1975 his ailment had disappeared, and at age 51, Slayton
- participated in the famous Apollo-Soyuz mission, in which an
- American spacecraft docked with a Soviet counterpart.
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