Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Prime Crew Member Donald "Deke" K. Slayton suits up for an altitude test of the Apollo command module in an altitude chamber of KSC's Manned Spacecraft Operations Building (MSOB).
Date
1/14/1975
NASA Center
Kennedy Space Center
Astronaut Donald Slayton
Name of Image
Astronaut Donald Slayton
Date of Image
1959-04-27
Full Description
Astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, one of the original seven astronauts for Mercury Project selected by NASA on April 27, 1959. Astronaut Slayton had never been into space, grounded because of an irregular heartbeat, until he flew on the Apollo/Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) on July 15, 1975.
Photos of Astronaut Donald K
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Photos of Astronaut Donald K. Slayton during World War II
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Photos of Astronaut Donald K. Slayton during World War II. The first view shows Slayton (on right) beside a Douglas A-26 bomber in the Pacific Theater of Operations during the summer of 1945, probably on Okinawa. The second man is 1st. Lt. Ed Steinman (28359), This view shows Slayton as an eighteen-year-old U.S. Army Air Force cadet at Victoria Field, Vernon, Texas in the autumn of 1942.
Date Taken
1975-07-11
Astronaut Donald Slayton bei
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Astronaut Donald Slayton being assisted into his suit for egress training
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Astronaut Donald Slayton is being assisted into his suit by a suit technician for egress training.
Date Taken
1961-01-01
Astronaut Donald Slayton bei
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Astronaut Donald Slayton being assisted into his suit for egress training
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Astronaut Donald Slayton is being assisted into his suit by a suit technician for egress training.
Date Taken
1961-01-01
Astronaut Donald Slayton in
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Astronaut Donald Slayton in pressure suit for altitude chamber test
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Astronaut Donald Slayton in pressure suit for altitude chamber test, carrying portable air conditioning unit for the suit.
Date Taken
1962-04-01
Astronaut Donald Slayton at
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Astronaut Donald Slayton at entrance to altitude chamber test
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Astronaut Donald Slayton in pressure suit for altitude chamber test, carrying portable air conditioning unit for the suit. He is standing at the entrance to the test chamber.
Date Taken
1962-04-01
Astronaut Donald Slayton par
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Astronaut Donald Slayton participates in medical emergency simulation
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Mercury astronaut, participates in Mercury-Redstone 4 egress training aboard the U.S.S. Beandy. Rescue support crewmembers simulate a medical emergency.
Date Taken
1961-01-01
Astronaut Donald Slayton che
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Astronaut Donald Slayton checks out Docking Module back-up flight article
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton helps check out the Docking Module (DM) back-up flight article during Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) preflight preparations at JSC. Slayton, docking module pilot of the American ASTP crew, participates in a DM thermo-vacuum test walk through "dry run" in Chamber B, Space Environment Simulation Laboratory, bldg 32, at JSC.
Date Taken
1974-07-17
Donald Slayton talks with ne
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Donald Slayton talks with newsmen after examinig damage to Pad 19
Description
Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, talks with newsmen after examinig damage to Pad 19, Kennedy Space Center, following liftoff of the Gemini 7 spacecraft on December 4, 1965.
Date Taken
1965-12-05
Astronauts Stafford and Slay
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Astronauts Stafford and Slayton in blockhouse during GT-3 prelaunch checkout
Description
Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (seated), the Gemini-Titan 3 backup crew pilot, and Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, are shown in the blockhouse at Pad 19 during the Gemini-Titan 3 prelaunch checkout.
Date Taken
1965-03-08
Original Seven Astronauts
Name of Image
Original Seven Astronauts
Date of Image
1959-04-27
Full Description
The group portrait of the original seven astronauts for the Mercury Project. NASA selected its first seven astronauts on April 27, 1959. Left to right at front: Walter M. Wally Schirra, Donald K. Deke Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and Scott Carpenter. Left to right at rear: Alan B. Shepard, Virgil I. Gus Grissom, and L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Astronaut Donald Slayton in
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Astronaut Donald Slayton in hatchway between Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot of the American Apollos Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) crew, is seen in the hatchway leading between the Apollo Docking Module (DM) and the Soyuz Orbital Module during the joint U.S.-USSR ASTP docking in Earth orbit mission. The 35mm camera is looking from the the Soyuz into the Docking Module.
Date Taken
1975-07-17
Astronaut Donald Slayton par
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Astronaut Donald Slayton participates in ASTP crew training at JSC
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot on the American Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) prime crew, participates in ASTP joint crew training in bldg 35 at JSC. He is in the Docking Module mock-up. The training simulated activities on the first day in Earth orbit.
Date Taken
1975-02-17
Original 7 Astronauts in Spa
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Original 7 Astronauts in Spacesuits
Full Description
Project Mercury Astronauts, whose selection was announced on April 9, 1959, only six months after the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was formally established on October 1, 1958. Front row, left to right, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., and M. Scott Carpenter, back row, Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Virgil I. 'Gus' Grissom and L. Gordon Cooper.
Date
09/13/1968
NASA Center
Langley Research Center
Astronauts Stafford and Slay
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Astronauts Stafford and Slayton and Cosmonaut Leonov in Soyuz Orbital Module
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov and Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford are photographed in the Soviet Soyuz Orbital Module during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission.
Date Taken
1975-07-17
Astronauts Stafford and Slay
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Astronauts Stafford and Slayton and Cosmonaut Leonov in Soyuz Orbital Module
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Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov and Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford are photographed in the Soviet Soyuz Orbital Module during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) docking in Earth orbit mission.
Date Taken
1975-07-17
Dr. von Braun with Original
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Name of Image
Dr. von Braun with Original Mercury Astronauts
Date of Image
1959-01-01
Full Description
Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency's (ABMA) Development Operations Division, poses with the original Mercury astronauts in ABMA's Fabrication Laboratory during a 1959 visit. Inspecting Mercury-Redstone hardware are from left to right, Alan Shepard, Donald Deke Slayton, Virgil Gus Grissom, von Braun, Gordon Cooper, Wally Schirra, John Glenn, and Scott Carpenter. Project Mercury officially began October 7, 1958 as the United States' first manned space program.
Apollo ASTP crewmen return t
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Apollo ASTP crewmen return to Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas
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Dr. Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (second from left), JSC Director, chats with the three ASTP crewmen on the runway at Ellington Air Force Base after their arrival home from the Pacific recovery area. The six men are, left to right, Col. Donald Robinson, EAFB commander, Dr. Kraft, Astronaut John W. Young, Chief of the Astronaut office at JSC, Astronaut Vance D. Brand, command module pilot of the crew, Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot of the crew, and Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, crew commander. This picture was taken prior to the Official welcoming ceremonies (30109), Dr. Glynn S. Lunney (at microphone), American Technical Director of the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, praises the three ASTP crewmen during welcoming home ceremonies at Ellington. The seven persons behind Lunney are, left to right, Dr. Kraft, Mrs Vance D. Brand, Astronaut Brand, Mrs. Donald K. Slayton, Astronaut Slayton, Astronaut Stafford, and Mrs. Thomas P. Stafford. Medical treatment in Hawaii delayed the ret
Date Taken
1975-08-10
Astronauts Stafford and Slay
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Astronauts Stafford and Slayton visit Soviet Soyuz spacecraft
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Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, left, NASA ASTP crew commander, and Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot, visit the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft during the joint phase of the ASTP mission. They hold Soviet containers of borsh (beet soup) over which vodka labels have been pasted. This was the crew's way of toasting each other. The photo was taken in the Orbital Module portion of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft. The hatch to the Soyuz Descent Vehicle is in center background.
Date Taken
1975-07-17
Astronauts Grissom and Young
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Astronauts Grissom and Young during Gemini Launch Vehicle Review Meeting
Description
Crew members for the Gemini-Titan 3 mission go over the map of the orbital track with Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Manned Spacecraft Center. Shown (left to right) are Astronauts John W. Young, pilot, Slayton, Virgil I. Grissom, command pilot, and Ken Nagler, U.S. Weather Bureau. The group got together at the GT-3 Mission Review Meeting on March 20th, at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building on Merritt Island.
Date Taken
1965-04-05
Original 7 Astronauts Inspec
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Original 7 Astronauts Inspect Mercury Model
Description
The original seven Mercury astronauts were from left, front row: Virgil "Gus" Grissom. Scott Carpenter, Donald "Deke" Slayton and Gordon Cooper, back row: Alan Shepard, Walter Schirra and John Glenn. The Mercury 7 astronauts were introduced to the American public in April 1959. The seven criteria for selection were as follows: 1. less than 40 years old, 2. less than 5 foot 11 inches tall: 3. excellent physical condition, 4. bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent, 5. test-pilot school graduate, 6. minimum of 1,500 hours flying time, 7. qualified jet pilot. However, the process of choosing the first astronauts was elaborate and rigorous. The Langley Space Task Group believed that one of the most important prerequisites was being a test pilot. Langley engineer Charles Donlan and test pilot Robert Champine played important roles in the screening and selection process. Once selected, the astronauts began their training program at Langley. This included a "little of everything" ranging from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving. Training continued until the Langley Space Task Group was transferred to Houston, Texas.
Date
04.30.1959
Views of Mission Control in
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Views of Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 4 flight
Description
Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Assistant Director for Flight Operations, at his console in the Mission Control Center, during the Gemini 4 flight. He served as mission director and as a flight director (28462), During the Gemini 4 space flight in the Mission Control Center are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (left), Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, and Paul Haney, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Public Affairs Officer (28643).
Date Taken
1965-06-09
Views of Mission Control in
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Views of Mission Control in Houston during Gemini 4 flight
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr., Assistant Director for Flight Operations, at his console in the Mission Control Center, during the Gemini 4 flight. He served as mission director and as a flight director (28462), During the Gemini 4 space flight in the Mission Control Center are Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (left), Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, and Paul Haney, Manned Spaceflight Center (MSC) Public Affairs Officer (28643).
Date Taken
1965-06-09
Mission Control Center at Ca
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Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy after Gemini 5 launch
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Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy moments after the Gemini 5 was launched from Pad 19. Standing at right is Astronaut Donald K. Slayton, Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Manned Spacecraft Center. Seated (wearing dark shirt) is Astronaut Russell L. Schweickart. Other NASA and McDonnell Aircraft Col. personnel also monitor the progress of the flight.
Date Taken
1965-08-21
Fellow astronauts join Gemin
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Fellow astronauts join Gemini 7 crew for preflight breakfast
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Fellow astronauts join the Gemini 7 prime crew for breakfeast in the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Merritt Island, on the day of the Gemini 7 launch. Clockwise around table, starting lower left, are Astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., Gemini 7 prime crew pilot, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Donald K. Slayton, MSC Assistant Director for Flight Crew Operations, Richard F. Gordon Jr., Gemini 8 backup crew pilot, Virgil I. Grissom, Charles Conrad Jr., and Frank Borman, Gemini 7 prime crew command pilot.
Date Taken
1965-12-04
Mercury Astronauts Receiving
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Mercury Astronauts Receiving the Collier Trophy
Full Description
NASA Administrator James E. Webb (center) cites the space achievements of the Project Mercury Astronauts who received the 1963 Collier Trophy Award in a ceremony held at the White House on October 10, 1963. President John F. Kennedy (left) and Vice President Lyndon Johnson accompanied Webb at the ceremony. Five of the Mercury Seven astronauts are visible in the row behind James Webb. They are (starting from JFK's left): Alan Shepard, Donald "Deke" Slayton, John Glenn, Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Scott Carpenter.
Date
10/10/1963
NASA Center
Headquarters
The Mercury Seven Astronauts
Title
The Mercury Seven Astronauts
Full Description
The Original Mercury Seven astronauts with a U.S. Air Force F-106B jet aircraft. From left to right: M. Scott Carpenter, Leroy Gordon Cooper, John H. Glenn, Jr., Virgil I. Gus Grissom, Jr., Walter M. Wally Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Donald K. Deke Slayton.
Date
01/20/1971
NASA Center
Langley Research Center
Dr. von Braun with Seven Ori
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Name of Image
Dr. von Braun with Seven Original Mercury Astronauts
Date of Image
1959-01-01
Full Description
In this photo, Dr. Wernher von Braun, Director of the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency's (ABMA) Development Operations Division, is shown briefing the seven original Mercury astronauts in ABMA's Fabrication Laboratory. (Left to right) Guss Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, Donald Slayton, and Dr. von Braun.
Astronaut Shepard arrives at
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Astronaut Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by Grissom
Description
Astronaut Alan Shepard arrives at Grand Bahamas Island and is greeted by Astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom after the first American suborbital flight. He will participate in a press conference with Grissom and Donald Slayton.
Date Taken
1961-07-05
Mercury astronauts at the Sa
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Mercury astronauts at the Sam Houston Colosseum, Houston, Texas
Description
The original seven Mercury astronauts, each wearing new cowboy hats and a badge in the shape of a star, are pictured on stage at the Sam Houston Colosseum. A large crowd was on hand to welcome them to Houston, Texas. Left to right are astronauts M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Virgil I. Grissom, Walter M. Schirra Jr., Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Donald K. Slayton. Sen. John Tower (R.-Texas) is seen in far right background.
Date Taken
1962-07-04
Astronaut Walter Schirra sui
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Astronaut Walter Schirra suited-up prior to MA-8 flight
Description
Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., pilot of the Mercury-Atlas 8 (MA-8) earth orbital space flight, is suited up at Cape Canaveral, Florida, during the MA-8 prelaunch countdown. Schirra is talking to Astronaut Donald K. Slayton.
Date Taken
1962-10-05
Original Mercury Astronauts
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Original Mercury Astronauts with Col. John A. (Shorty) Powers
Description
Photo of the original Mercury Astronauts with Col. John A. (Shorty) Powers seated around a table talking to the news media. From left to right are: L. Gordon Cooper, Donald K. Slayton, John H. Glenn, Jr., Col. Powers, Alan B. Shepard Jr., M. Scott Carpenter, and Walter M. Schirra Jr. Virgil I. Grissom is out of the frame.
Date Taken
1961-07-25
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