Deke Slayton
☼ Born on 1 December 1924, in Sparta, Wisconsin, USA
† Died on 13 December 1993, in League City, Texas, USA, cause cancer
BiographyDonald K. Slayton was one of the original Mercury project astronauts, but he was grounded by an irregular heartbeat. He was chief of the NASA astronaut office and director of flight crew operations. In 1975 he flew on the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission. He died in 1993 at his home.
In the role of actor
Apollo 11 (17/03/2019)
Relive the 1969 moon landing in Apollo 11. On July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin their historic eight day mission to become the first men in land on the moon. With the help of newly discovered audio recordings and 65mm […]