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Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum

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Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Deke Slayton Memorial Space & Bicycle Museum
Phone:
+1 608-269-0033

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday10am - 4:30pm
Tuesday10am - 4:30pm
Wednesday10am - 4:30pm
Thursday10am - 4:30pm
Friday10am - 4:30pm
Saturday10am - 4:30pm


Donald Kent Deke Slayton , was an American World War II pilot, aeronautical engineer, and test pilot who was selected as one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office.After joining NASA, Slayton was selected to pilot the second U.S. manned orbital spaceflight, but was grounded in 1962 by atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm. He then served as NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations, making him responsible for crew assignments at NASA from November 1963 until March 1972. At that time he was granted medical clearance to fly, and was assigned as the docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, at age 51 becoming the oldest person to fly in space at the time. This record was surpassed in 1983 by 54-year-old William E. Thornton, 59-year-old Vance Brand in 1990, 61-year-old Story Musgrave in 1996, and in 1998 by Slayton's fellow Project Mercury astronaut John Glenn, who at the age of 77 flew on Space Shuttle mission STS-95. Slayton died at the age of 69 on June 13, 1993, from a malignant brain tumor.
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