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... Infobox bodystyle = float:right; valign:top; title = Donald K. Slayton titlestyle = image = Image:Astronaut_slayton.jpg 200px imagestyle = caption = Donald K. Slayton captionstyle = headerstyle = background: ccf; labelstyle = background: ddf; datastyle = text-align:right; header1 = label1 = data1 = header2 = label2 = Birth Name data2 = Donald K. Slayton header3 = label3 = Birth Date data3 = Mar 1 1924 header4 = label4 = Birth Place data4 = label5 = Date ...

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... and technology. What was your involvement in Gemini? By this point you began working with Deke Slayton through the Flight Crew Operations. Is that correct? '''Gregory:''' Yes. '''Butler:''' As the program was ... both astronaut selection and crew assignment. Perhaps this murkiness is intentional. But now that both Deke Slayton and Al Shepard are gone, I was wondering if you could shed any insight into ... . Then Deke would get on the phone and call these guys. That's how they would be notified. "Do you want to be part of the astronaut corps?" "Hi, this is Deke Slayton ...

... you do. Laughter '''Butler:''' We've talked a couple of times now, you've mentioned Deke Slayton, and you started to talk earlier about how you and he snuck in through the ... , which was really sort of amazing, because we got a lot of people younger than Deke Slayton was then who had coronary artery disease. But he did not have any. So it ... . Definitely. '''Butler:''' You mentioned Al Shepard a couple of times as we were talking about Deke Slayton, how it was a similar situation but was a shorter time span, I guess. '''Berry ...

... been the one to go to the Moon. From every—from the historical record shows Deke Slayton would’ve let you command the first flight to land on the Moon. Why did ... enormously to the program. More than any of the other first seven, Wally Schirra and Deke Slayton did the job. But he just is a different person laughs than I am from ... role that you played in Apollo-Soyuz coming together, you kind of helped your friend Deke Slayton finally get to fly. I mean, any stories from remembering what it was like, that ...

... chief under Warren. After a short period there, we reported to the director, who was Deke Slayton. Deke was, well, he was the kind of guy that would—he didn't mess a ... was under a different group or organization than my mission simulators. It was still under Deke Slayton, and under a gentleman by the name of Dean Grimm. When they reorganized the Warren ... Apollo-Soyuz, you mentioned that a little bit, and, of course, you've talked about Deke Slayton. It must have been rewarding to see him finally get a chance to fly. '''Woodling ...

... was in awe when we got here, you know. Gosh, here’s Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton, you know, and Wally Walter M. Schirra Jr. , and all those famous astronauts who I ... minutes; and Deke Slayton is sitting to my right, you know. We were glued to that screen, and I’m just talking and talking and telling them all this stuff. And Deke, I ... in management, public positions? '''Duke:''' Well in the Astronaut Office, of course, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton, I really respected. John Young, probably one of the most brilliant engineering minds that the ...

... crew, the backup crew, the mission scientists and Deke Donald K. Slayton. That was a huge important thing that Deke, God bless his soul, Deke Slayton did. Deke Slayton was one of these people that held us ... even more important, the debriefing. NASA was very clever in dividing these debriefings into levels. Deke Slayton and the crew talked about how the crew worked together. If there were any problems ...

... Bob Gilruth about it." I describe that in my book, where the four of us, Deke Slayton and myself and George Low and Gilruth, used to have—when we had some serious ... close to Borman as an astronaut flyer, as any of them. I was close to Deke Slayton from a personal friend point of view probably more than anybody else because we spent ... we felt that way. I think that George Low, myself, Bob Gilruth and Max Faget, Deke Slayton, to say the top, and then lots of layers below it, all felt that it ...

... ., Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Alan B. Shepard, Jr., and Donald K. “Deke” Slayton ? '''O'Hara:''' Well, in January of 1960, the first seven started coming down to the ... do for so long. '''Wright:''' It must have been special for you then to watch Deke Slayton finally get to go. '''O'Hara:''' Ah, that was wonderful. The crew had asked me ... , was Deke Slayton. He was standing with a group of people, and Colonel Knauf and I were down on the hangar floor, and he said, “Oh, there’s one of the astronauts, Deke Slayton ...

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