Sparta’s Deke Slayton took his only space trip, 50 years ago
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Sparta’s Deke Slayton took his only space trip, 50 years ago
WIZMnews.com Donald ‘Deke’ Slayton, originally from Monroe County, was the only one of the seven original Mercury astronauts who did not get to fly in space in the 1960’s. His mission scheduled for 1962 was scrubbed, because he had a heart problem. When Slayton finally made it onto the crew of a joint American-Soviet mission, the Apollo-Soyuz flight in July 1975, about two dozen relatives went to Cape Canaveral for the lift-off. Several Sparta …
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